November Learning to Charge for Weblog Hosting….
I was visiting the November Learning site tonight and learned that they are no longer offering free hosting for teachers…
November Learning is no longer offering free blogs. For those who currently have accounts on our system, please be advised that our free blogging service will only be available up until August 1, 2006. After that time, you will have the opportunity to purchase an individual account in our software. If you choose not to pay the subscription fee your blog will no longer be available.
The site does mention that they have moved to a new weblog platform, but it doesn’t indicate what that platform is… It looks like James Farmer’s Edublogs.org is the best bet for no cost sites for educators. I set up an edublog site for my last class at Pacific University and plan to use it again this spring. James is also an active blogger and his Blogsavvy site is one that I visit daily.
Technorati Tags: edublogs.org, November Learning, James Farmer
December 28th, 2005 09:43
Tim, I was disappointed, but not surprised, to see this. I have a site with November that I’ve been using for my school news reporters - http://nlcommunities.com/communities/mahlness - but that’ll only run for the rest of the year, if I can continue to find good, free blog hosting. I’d recommend David Warlick’s ClassBlogmeister - http://classblogmeister.com - it’s free, it has quite a buzz about it right now (some would say community), a discussion list, etc. It also hosts student blogs - my third graders are at http://roomtwelve.com Happy New Year! - Mark
January 9th, 2006 21:51
Back off holidays and I can personally guarantee that you’re NEVER going to have to pay for an edublog, uniblog or learnerblog account.
And you’ll be getting the best blogging platform there is around too
And plenty more come the rest of 2006…