5 – WordPress

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WordPress is an open source blogging platform that is free and easy to use. Can also be used to create a fully-functional website.

Comments from some of those who selected WordPress as one of their Top 10 Tools

• “I now have two WordPress blogs and though they are quite challenging to maintain, I love the availability of plugins and themes – Open Source at its best”. Frances Bell
• “We use the self-hosted version for the company blog and dozens of WordPress.Com ones for learners. Great for encouraging reflections on their learning.” Leia Fee
• “Have used this for my own blog since the beginning of 2008. Have not regretted the decision to move from blogger” Carol Cooper Taylor
• “I use WordPress for my blog. I started a blog after I started using Twitter, the microblogging inspired me to work out thoughts and concepts in more than 140 characters. I’m keeping a blog to work out concepts and ideas about education and e-learning and to share information with colleagues and other learning professionals. It’s becoming my tool for reflection and creating a sort of digital portfolio”.  Jeroen Bottema
• “the best blogging tool I’ve found so far”  Jochen Robes
• “has been my blogging platform of choice since 2007. Along with a template called Thesis, I am able to do much more than simply publish content. I use it to manage content and communicate across other platforms (via widgets and plug-ins)” Janet Clarey
• “I love blogging. I may even be a addict! WordPress is my favourite blogging tool. It can be customised, especially with the help of the great community out there offering free themes, and the latest version offers some great features: I am so glad to be able to schedule release of posts, for example so my blog can appear even when I can’t. Must get around to moving my personal blog to WordPress… but I started in Blogger 5 years ago and that’s a lot of history! WordPress is perfectly adequate to base one’s whole website in – especially for a small business.” Helen Whitehead
• “having dabbled in Dreamweaver and other programs I find the ease of use anywhere and the huge choice of free beautiful templates is dragging me more and more away from conventional web design”  Mary Cooch

A Practical Guide to the Top 100 Tools for Learning

Find out how to use the Top 100 Tools for personal learning and productivity, for  professional development, in educational and training and for workforce collaboration

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