Edublogs has announced that all their blogs are now free of advertisements. In the past, you had a pay a few extra bucks for that feature. I think it’s still worth paying a few extra dollars for the other extra features you can get, but at least now — even if you don’t want to pay — you won’t have to worry about those annoying ads.

Edublogs announcing this new change as a little impetus to get up to one million hosted blogs (they’re now up to 950,000).

I’ve been writing for the past few years that I think Edublogs is the best platform — by far — to use for teacher and student blogs. It’s so easy to use, and the customer service is out of this world! For the life of me, I really don’t understand why people would want to spend the time hosting their own, or use one of the other blog-hosting platforms that are blocked by so many school content filters. But to each their own…