Question:What free services are available ?

The IT Guy says:
Blogmeister, a free service from David Warlick, is one of the best tools to use because of the teacher moderation features it offers for student blogs. James Farmer in Australia has set up LearnerBlogs for K-12 students and Edublogs for teachers who want to use Wordpress blogs. Manila from Userland (http://manila.userland.com/) is a reasonably priced commercial option which schools may use and locally host.

From a liability standpoint, there are major advantages for schools hosting their own blog servers.

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