In an attempt to keep posts fairly short, sharp and shiny, there are 4Â parts. Each answer a common question about blogging: 1.What is a blog? 2. Why would I use blogs with my students? 3. How would I use them? 4. How do I get started?
There has been a blogging explosion at my school! Woo hoo! It’s great. We’ve got kids blogging and some staff have jumped right in the blogging deep end too. It’s not all to do with LOTE. The kids are blogging about anything and everything for any subjects. Most of the students set up their blogs with our fabulous ICT teacher, Anne Mirtschin. She got them to use Global Student. Global Teacher / Global Student is a project started by Heather Blakey in Melbourne. She has created a fantastic blogging community for both students and teachers.
Blogging Question 1: What is a blog?
A blog (which is short for ‘weblog’) is a website that you can edit very easily. Each new entry that you write appears on the front page, above the previous entry. A blog is on the internet and available for anyone to read. A blog can be about anything, and there are blogs about everything! technoLOTE is a blog and I write about technology in the LOTE classroom. One of my other blogs, The Rise of Reflection, is more general reflections on lots of different things really.
Click here to let Lee Lefever of the Commoncraft Show explain exactly what a blog is in his video ‘Blogs in Plain English.’
If anyone has some better definitions of a blog than what I have written, please leave a comment!
Stay tuned for the answer to Blogging Question 2: Why would I use blogs with my students?
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