Blog Basics

Welcome everyone. We are ready to start our journey in the digital world! Although you may wish to embark on your travels, I would like you to first read the information below, before you create your own blogs.

"Wikipedia"defines a blog as: "a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order."

Blogging is the posting of journal-like pages to a website. While these pages can contain photos, videos, links or other forms of media, they are primarily focused on the easy ability to post written thoughts to a website. The postings are organized chronologically. Typically, a blog post can be commented on by others, allowing for a dialogue on a topic of the post.

WATCH THIS CLIP (from the Common Craft show) ABOUT BLOGGING...

Teachers and educators have used blogs to allow for what is commonly called "peer review", meaning that students can post writings or assignments to the web, and other students can respond or encourage through the comment feature.

In a broader and more educational system, blogs are about communicating. You perceive an experience, reflect on it, and then write about it. Other people read your reflections, respond from their perspectives by commenting on your blog or posting their own blog comment. You read their perspectives, often learn something through their eyes ,and write some more. Blogs can help to create a community of readers and writers.

* Blogging is about reading and writing.
* Literacy is about reading and writing.
* Blogging is about literacy.