iSean

well, i find myself up for tenure, with classes starting, and an application for the teaching with technology award that i’ve been nominated for all due in the next week. that doesn’t leave a lot of time for blogging, but i did want to discuss blogging.

as i wrote earlier, i used blogsome last semester. it turned out to be decent, but not good. a few too many students had “issues” to the point that i will not be using blogsome again. the thing i really liked about blogsome is that it used WordPress, which is what my blog that you’re viewing uses to power it. and, blogsome make this available for free and no ads. it looked like a pretty good deal going in. oh well.

i am now torn between using blogger.com (google’s blogging tool that is widely used) or trying something new yet again. i just discovered, blogsource, which is free tool that has a better look and feel than blogger.com. here’s what blogsource says about themselves:

a simple, free blogging service for everyone. Our goal is to provide a creative blog community that is powerful yet easy to use, so even our first time bloggers can feel at home. To this end, we continually add and refine features based on your requests.

i set up a sample blog at blogsource . . . here, but as you can see, there appears to be a bug. not a good sign when i am trying to decide on a tool to assign for my students. my gut tells me that i have no choice and that blogger.com is it; however, my heart wants to provide a neater tool for my students. decisions, decisions. hmmm.