Blogger is a simple and quick way to get a blog up and running. You can use it for your own professional diary, to run a blog for your course or for your students to keep their own learning journals. Blogger is now owned by Google.
Website www.blogger.com
Cost Free
Availability Online
2007 ranking 9
2008 ranking 10
2009 ranking 14=
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Comments from those who selected Blogger as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009
Place for sharing the thoughts, experience, questions Malinka Ivanova
still there as my blog tool of choice Jane Challinor
I didn’t choose my blogging tool, I just took the easy option and used the one that Google provided. It seems absolutely fine. I now supplement it with a desktop blog editor called Windows Live Writer, which I prefer to Google’s own editor. Clive Shepherd
I'm here many times a week, as this tool is responsible for hosting my blog: The Clever Sheep. Rodd Lucier
Comments from those who selected Blogger as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008
"I use this for a private learning log, a public “salsa” blog, and members only discussions on the module I am teaching." Jane Challinor
"a marvellous educational and personal development tool" Bill Miller
"Never quite made the move to WordPress or TypePad etc. I've been blogging using blogger for 4-5 years and never had a problem with it. Like any blogging platform its a quick and easy way to get a message out there" Rich Chetwynd
"for personal and professional reflection, sharing stories, ideas, thoughts, and whatever takes my mind at the time" Ian Usher
"Es la base de todo lo demás, el punto de encuentro. En este momento supera a Wordpress claramente, ya que la posibilidad de editar el CSS permite encontrar soluciones a casi todo. Echo de menos más plantillas y la posibilidad de crear páginas sin recurrir a trucos cutres. [It is the base of all the others, the point of contact. At this moment it surpasses to Wordpress clearly, since the possibility of publishing the CSS allows to find solutions to everything almost. I miss more groups and the possibility of creating pages without resorting to miserly tricks]" Emilio Quintana
"I have been on Blogger since 2004. I recently looked seriously at changing to Wordpress or Typepad but decided I had no compelling reason to do so. I have only been writing very sporadically but this year hope to be much more consistent. Still, I think Blogger will continue to serve me well." John Schaffer
" I didn’t choose my blogging tool, I just took the easy option and used the one that Google provided. It seems absolutely fine. I now supplement it with a desktop blog editor called Windows Live Writer, which I prefer to Google’s own editor." Clive Shepherd
"Blog" Daniel O'Shea
"for making me learn before sharing, for making me learn more by sharing" Michelle Gallen
"I have found blogger.com the most intuitive site for learners setting up a new blog, especially the new version." Anne Paterson
"Blogging – not a particular blogging tool, but just the fact of blogging has helped me know more and forced me to learn. It is a bit like teaching is the best method of learning. I use Blogger for my blog." Manish Mohan
"Still Blogger - but Wordpress is a good runner-up!" Edwin Mijnsbergen
"Place for sharing the thoughts, experience, questions " Malinka Ivanova
"There are lots of great blogging apps available. I still use one of the standards here, though others have more features." Thomas Stone
"To run my own blog (both my professional and family blogs)." Benjamin Hamilton
"As an avid blogger, I find the tool easy to use and straightforward to set up and add posts…of course I have a laundry list of items that I'd like to see added but it does a great job for quick and easy blogging." Karl Kapp
"While everyone seems to get the blog thing now, few are leveraging the technology for what, at its root, it really is: a very quick web page creator. It can be a place to list assignments, a site for student interaction and discussion, and even a location for structuring and hosting an entire course. Google “23 Things” to see a blog-for-training at its best." Jane Bozarth
"simple - free - you can be very creative with the new version" Florence Meichel
"I have set up a blog using Blogger and use this as an occasional reflection tool. I am enjoying linking other tools to my blog." Elaine Talbert
"This is my basic essential survival tool for writing my blogs. As I look around more I realise it's probably not the best tool in the world for creating blogs, but it's certainly an easy tool to use and one that does the job well and doesn't cost anything." Nik Peachey
"It may not be the best compared to other tools but I find it simply works and meets my blogging needs down to the ground." Jonathan Lecun
Comments from those who selected Blogger as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
"Sure, I want to switch to Wordpress, but I started with Blogger exactly 2 years ago and I've just gotten used to putting up with it." Brent Shlenker
"Basic blogging tool. Not fab but simple and does the job" David Wilson
"The first blogging tool I encountered and still the most intuitive to use, in my opinion. I have been blogging for a shade over 2 years now, and so far, so good." Karyn Romeis
"It has all the features I need without having to learn how to set up server features" Dennis Coxe
"Blogger is what I started with, so I feel sort of stuck with it. It does the job." Cammy Bean
"As an avid blogger, I find the tool easy to use and straightforward to set up and add posts…of course I have a laundry list of items that I'd like to see added but it does a great job for quick and easy blogging" Karl Kapp
"I've blogged using four different platforms and this has been the easiest yet. The way it integrates with the other Google tools makes its use a no-brainer." Kevin Gamble
"User-friendly, easy to set up, well found by search engines. Hardly any troubles or bugs. Brilliant." Edwin Mijnsbergen
"Blogging Service very usable and clear" Jose Carlos del Arco
Desde 2003 acompañándome en mis búsquedas, conocimientos, aprendizajes y descubrimientos...y mi memoria inicial. (From 2003 accompanying to me in my searches, knowledge, learnings and discoveries… and my initial memory.). Eraser Cabeza Borredora
"Maybe Wordpress is a better blog editor, but Blogger is easier and provides a better blogging service" Jose Luis Cabello
"for my own professional blog. It has all the features I need" Gianni Marconato
"a free tool that allows for endless opportunities for students (and teachers alike) to express themselves and interact with a cyber-audience" Ramona Dietrich
"I suppose there are better blogging tools around, but I am kind of new to using blogs, so I will have to go with this one until I get a bit wiser" Zaid Alsagoff
"There are lots of great blogging apps available. I still use one of the standards here, though others have more features." Thomas Stone
"my think aloud. This is where conversation begins and ends with me" Patrick Higgins
