Great day with b2evolution!

I had a great day today working with about 20 students, grades 5-8, and their teacher in Greenville School near Marietta, Oklahoma. I helped them get a new class blog started using b2evolution. I settled on b2evolution as the blogging tool because:

• b2evolution does not require students to have email addresses to setup accounts (they can use a dummy account like “none@none.com”)– unforunately both learnerblogs and blogger DO require student email accounts.
• ClassBlogmeister is a great tool, but it is controlled by David Warlick, and I need a software tool I can use and setup directly without working through an intermediary (even though David is a GREAT guy and very helpful– he’s just often pretty busy!)
• November Learning Communities has great classroom blogging software, but it costs big $$$. b2evolution is free.
• b2evolution supports creation of multiple blogs from the same mySQL database. My web host limits me to five mySQL databases, so this is a VERY big deal. (I don’t have enough mySQL accounts to setup a new wordpress blog for each classroom I want to help like this.)
• b3evolution is free, and was FAIRLY straightforward to setup (as web apps involving mySQL using PHPmyadmin and ftp go…..)

Now I need to do a few tweaks to the install: get the .htaccess file set to improve performance, fix the default homepage, and implement a b2evolution hack Miguel told me about that permits comment moderation. 🙂

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