Blogger VS WordPress

WordPress and Blogger are two of the major heavy text-based blogs which offers plenty of designs and features. Both websites are similar yet different in many ways.

• Users able to host the WordPress software on their own account. However with Blogger, users have sign in through Google's servers.
•  WordPress platform is shared all the way down to the source code which mean the users able to change and extend the service as needed. Whereas with blogger is proprietary product with no outside influence. 
• Blogger has a limited team behind its designs and thus only a few options for user to customize or create their own templates.  However with WordPress, there are hundreds of thousands of free and premium themes for seemingly every conceivable websites need. Each theme is fully editable and developers with a though of experience and patience can create and upload their own custom design.
• The internet's most popular eCommerce platform and is owned by the same company as WordPress. However with Blogger, users can only earn money by displaying targeted ads through Google AdSense. 
•  Google owns and operated the servers hosting the users website, along with the blogging software itself, so their website will susceptible to malicious attacks.

Blogs have the potential to expand students creativity, not to mention  their writing skills. It required minimum technical knowledge and able to easily create quickly and maintained. Students will be able to pick up how to use blogging platforms with minimal technical assistance and teachers will enjoy the ease in the initial setup.