Free Blog Hosts - the Gist of it!

There are so many free blog hosts that I couldn't possibly begin to review all of them. So here are three that are frequently used by educators.

Blogger

• run by a team at Google
  
• very popular and extremely user-friendly
• blog owner can delete posts
  
• each template has different features, so choose one that fits your needs
• .com domain, so some filters will block this site
  

EduBlogs

• brought to us by James Farmer and the Chalkface Project
• easy-to-use "categories" feature allows you to attach common 'tags' to posts thereby creating hierarchy within a site for easy navigation
• administrator can password protect each post from viewing
  
• in addition to the blog, you can create static pages
  
• free wiki powered by Wikispaces
• .org domain
  

The BlogMeister

• David Warlick and the Landmark Project supports this free tool.
  
• security feature: teacher registers a Classroom Blog and then "adds students" in order for themselves to post articles and comment on others work
• teacher can password-protect reading the site
  
• search by state to see the many of Washington state classroom blogs in BlogMeister!
• .com domain, so some filters will block this site
  

For more information about other weblog hosts and to consider the different fucntions you might want, the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC published this Blog Software Comparison Chart which is a handy summary table of eight different providers and levels of service.

Start Blogging

• This entry on the SupportBlogging! wiki lists different free blog hosts and because it's a wiki, you can add your own favorite to the list or edit a description to add to the discussion.