Today in the Education Section of The Australian Newspaper there was is article about an employee of Deakin University (here in Melbourne) who has set up a system to give free WordPress blogs to those working in the education sector.
What a wonderful idea!
James Farmer claims that the server space to do this costs about AUS$4000 per year, which I find extrodinary because I know of people could do the same thing for about 1/10th of this cost.
Anyhow, for those of us who would like to introduce WordPress into our own teaching (but have more than 100 students) this would be a great service (if it can handle so many blogs).
Edublogs, his hobby, began last August. Farmer says it's growing 40 per cent to 50 per cent a month and reached 72,413 unique site visits last month. He was happy to cover the annual server costs of $US3000 ($4000), although he now has sponsorship from Chalkface Project, an international education publisher.
