Blog Comparison

I chose to compare Blogger, WordPress, and EduBlog. Really when looking at the different platforms it comes down to personal preferences and how the teacher would like to use it in the classroom.  A lot of the features are similar across the different platforms it depends more on what you like and the technical expertise you have to navigate and use the site to create your blogs.  The following websites both have comparison charts that break down key information to using different platforms.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/01/chart-comparison-of-educational.html#.U3dl7ShLqSo

http://blog-services-review.toptenreviews.com/

Blogger and Wordpress seem to be very similar in features that are available.  Word Press has a little more traffic and feedback features but between the two they have the same features as far as being able to have multiple authors, support apps, manage accounts, making the blog private, embedding 3^rd party media and unlimited themes. A disadvantage of blogger is that it owns your site so if you would like to turn your blog into your own domain name WordPress would be better to go with.  Also because of WordPress being an open source it is a little more difficult to those who are not programmers but it does allow for a lot more versatility when you do know because there are a large amount of plug-ins and other features that can be added. 

EduBlog has lots of advantages to use in a classroom setting such as managing multiple accounts and being able to have security settings to limit and allow students posts.  The downside is to really get these advantages you would want the pro account which cost money.  If you had the money and were going to use it as a main part of your teaching I would go with EduBlog but if it is not I would probably not recommend the cost and choose to go with one of the other free platforms.