The three new themes you get to play with are:

Chaotic Soul - It’s nice and dark with a split customizable header to appeal to our inner emo.

Greenery - Delightfully green, another one with a customizable header just waiting for you to wreck the colour scheme ;)

Sweet Blossoms -  Apparently you guys wanted another pink theme, well.. here you go!

Other themes we have planned include some more ‘elementary’ themes for younger students, some magazine-esque themes to allow you to make your blog look like an online newspaper and some photoblogging themes.

So roll on 200!

So, please use the comments below to let us know about creating blogs for your students, managing them once they’re going, aggregating them all into one place and also setting assignments, sharing materials and all that teachin’ stuff.

Also, are there any extra features that you’d like to see which would make using blogs with your students even more cool than it already is (or persuade you to start if you haven’t already done so.)

Please leave your ideas and thoughts in the comments below and we’ll respond with our thoughts too - and see about developing exactly what you want.

Also, take time to check out other peoples suggestions and comment on them too!

And what’s more, your blog backend is going to get a makeover really really soon too (more details at the end of this post).

So here’s how we used to look:

And here’s how we look now:

We’re hoping that the new look demonstrates how far we’ve come as a company in the last year and also improves on your Edublogs experience. It’s a lot lighter on the load, contains some nice new useful links for logged in users, describes what we do much better, profiles The Edublogger better than before and shows off more Edublogs Supporters rather nicely too.

And of course, hopefully it also helps build awareness of Edublogs Campus too :)

As for your blogs, well we can’t confirm the date yet but most likely in the next few weeks we’ll be upgrading the site to the latest version of WordPress which means that your admin area is going to start looking a lot like the below:

And it also means that you’re going to get a heap more of most excellent features, some of which are so cool it’s exciting just anticipating them :)

So we’ll let you know when that happens, and also (in case you’re worried) have a whole new set of video tutorials and other materials to help acquaint you and your students with the new admin layout.