WordPress in education

WordPress, being an easy to use blogging system would be great for educational purposes.

Students can all create a blog and post their work to the Internet for the teacher to check. It can be much easier to manage than having paper everywhere, and there are dates posted with the blogs automatically as to what time the student posted and updated the message which will prevent late assignments. This would also help in checking if a student copied another student’s answers.

Students can also comment on each other’s blogs. This really helps in online collaborative learning – students working together and helping one another. This is what makes WordPress and blogging a Web 2.0 tool.

Students can upload photos, videos and other files to add even more to their posts rather than just plain text. I think in terms of photo uploads, WordPress could be better than Flickr. (See my post about Flickr in Education).