Blogmeister
Blogmeister is a blogging tool created specifically for the education market. The biggest difference between blogmeister and any other blogging tool is the ability for the teacher to review the student blog entries before the entries are published.
But blogging is also showing up in schools, where teachers have known for a long time that students develop better communication skills when they are authentically communicating. A number of educators are helping their students developing their writing skills by having them publish their work as blogs, and then invite comments from people in the outside.
There are many freely available tools that facilitate blogging, but none seem especially suited for the classroom. That is the reason for BlogMeister. This online blogging tool is explicitly designed with teachers and students in mind, where the teacher can evaluate, comment on, and finally publish students’ blog articles in a controlled environment.
I have long been an advocate on the use of blogs in education – especially in creative writing classes. For a teacher to be able to control what is then published to the outside world, as well as provide private comments and guidance, is the next step in an emerging and useful technology.
