Until recently, if asked, I would not have been able to explain what a blog is. If you are in your twenties, like my children or younger, like my students, you have been blogging for quite sometime. Until very recently, I communicated on line by either e-mail or bulletin boards. Following the 1990's the blog was born. But for many of us over 40 or 50; busy with work and family we just never heard of blogging. Sure, I have spend hundreds of hours researching information on line, reading other peoples posts and comments but never realizing those were blogs. Now, I am blogging!
So what is blogging? Blogging is the act of creating a blog. What's a blog? According to Wikipedia, a blog "is a web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order." The term blog is short for web log, a "log" of diary-like entries published on a web site.
The blog entry consists of a title, post date, comments, tags and other items, which I am still discovering. Registering with a blog site such as http://www.blog.com/ or http://www.blogspot.com/ are free and offer templates that you can customize. Now, if you love writing this can be a lot of fun writing about anything that interests you. Blogging is an easy and instant method of publishing to the web where content can appear in many forms including: videos, recipes, opinions, commentaries, advice and anything else someone wants to write about.
Recently, our school nurse asked for help in supporting a group of teachers who joined our "Biggest Losers'" club to get into shape. She asked for exercise and nutrition tips but also wanted to know how the teachers could support each other. Meetings generally fail due to busy schedules and meetings, so I suggested creating a blog. We have created a blog site using edublog and I am so pleased that it has been received with a great deal of excitement.
I still have a lot to learn about blogging, and the possibilities appear endless, but it also comes with a responsibility. The content is on the web for everyone to read and the author takes on that responsibility for personal opinions, beliefs and comments.
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Only that I pursued a Master's and took computer courses, as well as the media rich environment of the library media certification courses.......I myself would not know what a blog was. Didn't even know that I was reading them. Then I found out and was afraid to use one. I was "forced" last summer by setting one up. I think I may have tried before that, setting up others on other sites and not blogspot, but they are probably lost out in internet world. Can't remember where I left them. People I know (and there are many) who are anti-technology think I'm speaking gibberish. I'm happy to have learned "gibberish" since I didn't grow up with internet at all.
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