Create Your Own ESL/EFL Weblog TOPICS CALL Pages: Weblogs - Section 1 About Weblogs What is a weblog? Viewing weblogs Deciding what kind of weblog you want to create? Starting a weblog Using weblog hosting tools to create your own weblog Articles of Interest The Art of Blogging George Siemens Writing with Weblogs Kristen Kennedy Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes Aaron Campbell Creating a Writing Course Using Class and Student Blogs Andrew Johnson   What is a Weblog? Weblog Talk You've probably heard people talking about blogs (short for weblogs. You may even have been asked, "Do you blog?" or "Are you a blogger? Strange terms...weblogs, blogs, bloggers, blogging! So, what is a weblog? It's hard to provide any one definition of a weblog; If you do a search on the Internet, you'll finds dozens of definitions and no two will be exactly the same. To help you understand what a weblog is, check out an online definition of the term, review some common features of weblogs, read some definitions written by noted edubloggers (people who have created educational weblogs), and check out how some elementary school students view weblogs. Online definition at Net Lingo, the Internet Dictionary. Some common features of a simple weblog (blog) It is a different kind of Web site--an 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 easily--just type and click a post button. Comments can be easily be added to posts by readers. All posts (entries) are automatically archived. Blogs are arranged in chronological order. In this way, they are very different from other web pages. Each entry in a blog has a time and date stamp. To see some blogs ESL/EFL educators have created, continue to section 2: Viewing Weblogs. Creating ESL/EFL Weblogs - TOPICS CALL Pages - ©2003-2008 - Created by Sandy Peters - topics.mag@gmail.com