About+Blogs

What is a blog? A blog is a website you create to publish your own information. Readers can then comment on what you’ve written. For educational purposes, we can use blogs within our class as a way to foster conversation, or we can use it to keep parents updated with what’s going on in our class. Pros of Blogs ●Blogs are written in a format where each of the entries are dated and the most recent entry goes automatically to the top, so it is the first thing the reader sees. ●Users can comment on each entry. ●The sidebar can be used to feature all kinds of great resources- links, quotes, information, widgets, etc. ●Readers can subscribe to “feeds.” Feeds update a reader anytime a new blog entry is posted. Cons of Blogs ●The format is limiting. Because blogs are designed in a dated format, it isn’t very conducive to making pages for different topics. (i.e. page for discipline, page for school supplies, page for homework, etc.) ●You cannot add text, excel, or power point files to blogs unless you place them on an outside host and link to them.

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