A blog (“web log”) is an online diary or journal.
It is a web page that can be used for instant online publishing by opinion writers, part-time poets, critics or boosters and by family and friends, educators, clubs or businesses.
The blog site creates opportunities to exchange ideas, share timely news, record events, update projects, show pictures or post writings similar to a diary or journal. Additional information can be made available through links posted on the blog site.
Readers on the web respond to the blogger through comments on the blog page.
Blogging can be used either for play or for work, and can be compared to instant messages. Some of the time you will see random free thoughts or notes that someone has posted in order to make a statement, other times a blog might just be a series of funny musings. People use blogging for work, project posting, file sharing, related links, schedules as well as an exchange of ideas on how to get something done.
BLOGS are conversations.
BLOGGING starts with reading, and it is reflective.
When we say “Blogging starts with reading,” we really mean it. Blogs, or websites, can be used for any kind of information storage or interchanges. But the verb, “to blog (or blogging)” is a powerful term which has higher level thinking and literacy skills embedded in it. Key words such as interchange, conversation, analyzing, sythesizing, reacting, questioning, inferring, commenting, clarifying, linking, posting, responding, building, etc. are all critical features of blogging.
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