edublogs.org – free education blogs to anyone who wants them
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 want a particular one pre-installed). In a few weeks you’ll be able to edit them too!
Until the time that some philanthropic educational organisation comes and takes this over (that’s an invitation BTW!) this will be entirely supported by incsub and donations. No ads, no fees, no business model…. ahhh makes me smile 
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So if you know any teachers, students, researchers, writers or ANYONE interested in education… let them know that they can start their edublog at edublogs.org.
This is gonna be fun!
- Posted on: July 31st, 2005
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- Category: Just Blogging
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As I navigate blogsavvy I have become increasingly impressed with the variety of functions and ideas spread throughout. One question I had initially is if there is a way for teachers to get space to start there own blogs. Edublogs.org gives free space and is easy to use. When I become and educator in the next year I will definately make use of this. I also didn’t know that blogssavvy was international but after trying to read the last posting, in I believe it to be spanish, I am even more astonished at the diversity among educators here. That is a reason right there why blogs are useful in education.
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