Hello World!

Those two little words, Hello World, make me grasp the ENORMITY of posting on my new blogs! Those two little words speak – no, they SHOUT – the essence of creating and posting for the entire world to view, read, critique and understand all that will be written here. I love it!! Here I go…..

I created a blog on all four sites. I really felt at ease with Blogger because I had visited and created there previously. The site is very user friendly and easy to understand. Learnerblogs.org and wordpress.com were not difficult either, but I was stuck on 21publish for a long time trying to get past the top layer. I felt the directions there were not very clear and took much more time to develop a site.

If I were to choose one to use one with a class I believe the Learnerblog.com lends itself to that audience very nicely. The tutorials and features would enhance the learning experience for students and allow them to be creative individually. All of the blogs on the site are education based and seemed like it had a helping, positive tone. To allow students to blog without guidelines would be a prescription for trouble! I think they should be allowed use their own creativity when setting up their site as far as themes go, but they would need some guidance on content. They essentially should be taught some things about online etiquette. These would possibly include
-Use of acceptable sentence structure [no texting language, etc]
-Respect of others with regard to gender, race, etc.
-Allow time to write, re-write – and edit some more!

Overall, I really like the world of blogging but what I don’t like is the fact that you can work for hours and hours and hours – to finally have a single page of text. :>)