Introduction to Blogging

Introduction to Blogging

Let's begin with an introduction to blogging and blogging etiquette. Read below and follow the instructions at the bottom for your next reading assignment.

1. WHAT IS A BLOG ANYWAY?  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 the topic of the post.

2. 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.

3. Go to the next page listed just below the Blog What? section on the right hand side, entitled: Rules of Blogging. Read through this carefully before you go on to create your own blog.