School Blogs

What are School Blogs?

School Blogs are simply blogs connected to and hosted by a school. You may wonder why a school would be interested in school blogs. Well quite simply, they can revolutionize the learning experience for teachers and students and enable the school to connect more strongly with its community. Furthermore, school blogs present opportunities to raise money to support school projects.

Firstly, let be clear about what a school blog is. Blogs may have started as simple, online diaries but they are now almost indistiguishable from full-blown websites – in fact in most areas, blogs offer much more than a conventional website. This site is actually a blog.

School Blogs are simply personal websites created by teachers, students, administrator, parents, governors – anyone with an interest in the school. By using a blogging platform, the creation of these websites is as simple as using a word processor. The user needs no technical expertise.

It Is Easy To Set Up School Blogs

School blogs can be set up using the WordPress Multi User platform. By combining this with the WP.MU plugins you can have a school blog site up and running in minutes – completely installed for you. The advantage of the WP.MU approach, apart from the no technical knowledge required installation, is that your school blogs benefit from a wide range of extra features.

Thus, you get the rock-solid WordPress platform that currently runs over 5 million blogs at WordPress.com, enhanced by features:

such as themes to change the design
opportunities to earn revenues from advertising (and these could be significant) and payment for blogs (eg parents)
communicating with all users
and many more

The list of organizations using these features is impressive, including Cornell University and the Denver Post.

You can find out more by clicking on the link above – How to Set Up A School Blogging Platform.

The Benefits of School Blogs

Okay, maybe I have jumped the gun a little by talking about how to set up school blogs before giving you some reasons why you should do so. Each of the bullet points below links to a page providing more details on the benefits: