Electronic Writing Resources
Blogging Software and Hosting
21Classes
Class homepage to communicate with students, Independent yet inter-connected blog accounts for students, central console to manage students accounts with control over accounts and content.
Blogger
This is a small team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective.
Edublogs
Edublogs was one of the first WPMU sites. They've grown to host tens of thousands of blogs, providing a blogging solution for schools and other educational institutions.
Free-Conversant
Conversant is designed to help groups of all sizes work together by making it easy for them to share ideas, questions, files, and knowledge. It also has lots of features that make it very easy for a small group - or an individual - to publish dynamic web sites.
Gaggle.Net
Gaggle Blogs are a way that students and educators can interface with the rest of the world. Gaggle Blogs are filtered for inappropriate words and phrases.
Wordpress.com
A hosted version of the software found at Wordpress.corg where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge.
Wordpress.org
Free open source blogging software to place on your own host.
Articles
Blogging in the Classroom by Anne Davis
Ways to Use Weblogs in Education