What if you have tested out a PM trial- or other blog and are convinced that you could make effective use of blogs in your school? If as a teacher or school you decide that you want to create and use blogs more widely than in one class or with just a few students, then you should consider a Partnership Matters multi-user blog platform.
What are multi-user blogs?
Put simply, multi-user blog software allows you to set up and customise your own named space on the web where you have the ability to create and delete blogs as and when you need them.
What are the advantages?
- You can create and delete blogs as and when you need to without fuss.
- In setting up a multi-user blog platform you can pre-determine the content and control in detail how each newly-created blog performs, dovetailing its security and editorial settings with your school’s internet use policy.
- Overall management functions allow those responsible for the school blogs to control and edit every aspect of every blog – from it’s themes to the plugins it uses, to the content of every post, page and comment. Safe in the knowledge that site security is taken care of, users i.e. teachers and students can be given freedom to harness the potential of blogs in the classroom and beyond.
- Management of users means that they can be easily created and deleted, or assigned the functions they can perform within the sytem. For example, you may want students to be able to freely contribute to a particular blog while still maintaining the right for teachers to view what they have written before it is published to the world. This option along with a host of others are simply implemented with multi-user blogs.
What are the disadvantages?
The traditional drawback of multi-user blogging is that it runs server-side software that needs to be installed and hosted on a server. This costs both financially, in terms of hosting and software costs, and time in terms of technical learning and maintenance of server space and software.
PM Blogging - a new approach.
Unless you have an overwhelming desire to learn how to set up and maintain server-side software then by far the best option is to buy a PM Weblogs multi-user blogging package that will allow you to enjoy the benefits of multiple blogs in school without the time-consuming drain of maintaining a server.
The initial custom set-up and ongoing server-side maintenace is taken care of by us, allowing educators and students to get on with using blogs to impact teaching and learning from the outset.
The full benefits of our blogging package are listed on our PM Blogs Package page.
Local Support
As crucial as the choice of blogging software is appropriate input to kickstart any blogging project effectively. For schools embarking on their blogging adventure, Partnership Matters is able to offer initial and ongoing support from locally based trainers with blogging experience.
