What it is: eduperience is an easy blogging tool for students and teachers based on the WordPress platform. “Start a blog in seconds with unlimited storage, bandwidth, premium themes and plugins. It is too easy to publish Your academic calendar, newsletter, video, podcast, and photo.” You can choose to use an eduperience sub domain or your own domain hosting. Automated weekly and monthly backup of your blogs ensures safety. You can choose to earn up to 90% revenue on advertisements shown on your blog. eduperience is a great blogging platform for both students and teachers.
How to integrate eduperience into the classroom: eduperience is an easy way for you to get a classroom blog up and running. Use a classroom blog to post current assignments, class discussions, calendars, links to other websites relevant to classroom learning, and notes to your students. Students can use blogs as writing journals, an online portfolio of written work, or to collaborate with other students. Students tend to write more and with higher quality in an online environment. This is due in part to a greater sense of audience. Students know that teachers, students, and parents may be reading their writing. Blogs are also a great addition to the science classroom where students can reflect on experiments and labs.
Tips: eduperience offers outstanding 24/7 support. This makes it simple to get started with blogging, even if you haven never done it before!
Related Resources: think.com, Live Binders, edWeb 2.0, Weebly, Word Press, Blogger,
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I have been using NineHub.com (Free Moodle Hosting owned by Eduperience.com) since late last year. They are excellent. It just disturbing during server upgrade around mid Feb this year. Other than that it, they are excellent.
Other free WordPress hosting for education is edublogs.org.