Well, finally the completely obvious thing to do dawned on me.

WPMU + edublogs.org = Free education blogs for anyone who darn well wants them.

And that’s about it really.

WPMU at edublogs.org provides anyone who wants it with a free version of the latest (checkout 1.6!) version of WordPress.

First up you’ll get the domain http://yourdomain.edublogs.org

Then you’ll get 10MB (initially) of completely free upload space… plus unlimited MySQL (i.e. posts) space.

And with the new version of WPMU you also get to choose any one of a number of bloody great WordPress Themes (just contact me if you…

I don’t usually post annotated links here at Blogsavvy but this is well worth it.

Whatever you think about advertising, making money through blogging or ‘problogging’ as a whole… doesn’t matter. 31 days to building a better blog will see Darren Rowse:

“Starting Monday I’m going to turn up the ‘Blog Tips’ volume to 11 and am going to attempt to vomit onto you everything I know about how to make your blog better” [Problogger]

And whether you’re a mum-at-home. business, education, professional, citizen journalist or ‘what I had for tea last night’ blogger… you’re not going to want to…

Following on from how NOT to use blogs in education this post attempts to summarise this paper and add a few extra angles onto how you can use blogs effectively in education and invites your additional hints, tips, criticisms & wotnot.

You must incorporate blogs as key, task driven, elements of your course – This may sound obvious but simply providing blogs to learners and saying ‘Hey, use them however you want’ is an absolute guarantee of failure as all but 1 or 2 people will take you up on it. Significantly here that I’m not saying assessment… you…

Serious call to attention… if you’re interested in the development of WordPress MultiUser and would like to put in your requests for site-wide admin functionality then this is the place to do it!

Here’s the RSS feed for the WPMU forum too… it’s excellent stuff and I’d encourage pretty much anyone interested in the multi-user blogging scene to add this to their subscriptions.

Update: You can now find part II, how you SHOULD use blogs in education, here.

I thought I’d summarise a paper (Blogs @ Anywhere: High fidelity online communication) that I’m hoping to have accepted for ASCILITE 2005 here in two posts offering quick summaries of how I think you should & shouldn’t try to use blogs in education. If you’re into depth then you might prefer the paper, otherwise read on:

Never never approach blogs as discussion boards, listservs or learning management systems: Almost invariably the first thing people do when encountering new technologies is to try and get…