Tumblr

Tumblr is a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private.

Reasons for Use

 * quick way to blog events, activities, demonstration of learning
 * can set up a classroom Tumblr site and give students the specific Tumblr email address so that everyone can upload throughout the year (I would work with students to set up criteria and expectations when uploading a quote, text, pic, audio, video, link)
 * can have your own personal/professional microblog and even link with other Tumblr accounts

Ease of Use
Very quick and easy to set up. Once you have an account you can also download a mobile app for your smartphone. I find that teachers who are scared of blogging using Wordpress, Blogger, etc.... will gravitate to Tumblr because of the multiple ways they can microblog.

Resources
[|Tumblr Help Center] [|A Complete Guide to Tumblr] [|Tumblr walkthrough] media type="youtube" key="vTRGPKU8SlQ?version=3" height="315" width="560"