Technological Tools

WordPress

WordPress is an open source blogging engine that can be installed locally or used online.
Users can name their blog with any name that they want with the root typically ends with .wordpress.com.
Users can dress their blog up with a number of themes. Users can add text paragraphs, images, photo galleries, audio, blogs, etc.
WordPress.com offers a statistical analysis tool to track who is looking at the blog. It also offers the option to share a post to Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking sites.

Source: Eustis (2013)

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