Students will be using Edublogs as webhosts for their website. Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education. Students whole websites or individual pages can be securely password protected to ensure safety.
Edublogs are completely free, and come with 100MB of free upload space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of great features, Students will create their own subdomain at http://edublogs.org
Edublogs is built on WordPress technology, a web-based application used through a web browser. This technology is a popular freely available opensource content management system that can be modified to suit a variey of purposes.
Edublogs is made by educators, for educators and provide resources, discussion and suggestions for how students can use Edublogs. They are always adding to them and working on their methods. Edublogs are always thinking of new ways to use ePortfolios, collaborative classwork, online journaling, discussion or problem-based learning?
Edublogs is a trusted host and is the preferred platform for blogging by many Queensland schools.