Blogger:
When making this blog I found it pretty
easy because I made a blog on blogger before, along with the instructions
were pretty straightforward. Though it gets a bit confusing when designing my
blog because there is so much to choose from. It didn't have any instructions
for me to go through (video). You can set your blog on private along with
setting it where it z on the blogger's listing and you can turn off the search
engine. For comments you can choose who can comment (Everyone, Google Accounts,
Registered user, and Only members of blog). You can also choose if you want to
moderate the comments. My comments are currently on moderation, which
means the comment goes through me before it gets published on to the site. This
is my favorite blog to use because I like how everything is set up very clean
and organize; along with it is really straight forward.
WordPress:
Wordpress has straightforward instructions to make
the blog, except it gets a bit complicated after you get the structure of the
blog. So where you design the blog and make it pretty, mainly because there are
too many options. You can’t
control who sees your blog and you can remove it from the search engine. You
have an option where you must have someone who has an account can comment.
Whenever someone comments you can have the notification send to you. I don’t
like Wordpress because I find it really complex when it comes to designing the
blog.
Edublog:
Edublog
is very similar to Wordpress; the instructions were pretty straightforward. The
layout when it comes to designing is really similar to Wordpress. Though you
can also lock your blog and out a custom password so you can give certain
access to certain people. You can control who sees your blog from blocking
search engines, registered user, to everyone. It was pretty basic and simple
when creating the structure, like creating a theme, you had a few to choose
from which I don’t like because I like to have a really unique blog. It’s a bit
frustrated because there are many tabs and you would have to click on many to
get what you want. You can control who comments can get publish because they go
through an approval through you.
Out of all the blogs, I would choose Blogger to
make my blog because I find it more simple along with I've made a blog on here
before. Also, the other two blogs (Edublog, and Wordpress) both have the same
layout but a bit complicated for me. I would choose Blogger for a student at
this point because I find it a lot easier to use, and less complicated. If I
had to tell students to make a blog on Blogger, I would tell them to just pick
a theme then later on when you settled everything start adding widgets because
you want to have a solid nice base before complicating everything. I found
making a blog really simple because I'm very good with technology, following
instruction were more of a backup for me than following step by step.
