
About
blogs
What is a blog
Viewing Blogs
What kind of blog you want to
create?
Starting
a blog
Using
blogging tools to create your own
blog
Links to articles
on using blogs in ESL/EFL
Weblogs
for Use with ESL Classes
Aaron Campbell
Blogging for ELT
Graham Stanley
Creating
a Writing Course Using Class and Student
Blogs
Andrew Johnson |
Create
Your Own ESL/EFL Blogs
What is a blog?
It's hard to provide any one
definition of a blog; If you do a search on the
Internet, you'll finds dozens of definitions and no
two will be exactly the same. Here's a definition from
Wikipedia.
A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of event, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronical order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Blogger.com answers this question in a simple way.
In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.
Some common features of blogs that make them different from regular Web pages:
- It
is a different kind of Web sitean almost
instantly available writing space on the Web
that can be created in minutes.
- No
knowlege of HTML coding is needed to create it
because it's powered by easy-to-use, Web-based
software.
- Content
can be edited and updated quickly and
easilyjust type and click a post button.
- Comments
can be easily be added to posts by readers.
- All
posts (entries) are automatically archived.
- Posts (entries) on blogs
are usually arranged in reverse chronological order. In this
way, blogs are very different from other web
pages. However, it is easy to reverse this order.
- Each
entry in a blog has a time and date
stamp.
View how some ESL/EFL educators have created and used blogs: Viewing
Blogs.
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