EDP279+Blogging

Blogging is also known as a personal journal entry on a specific topic or theme that is posted on the internet. Blogs are normally done by one person but allow others to post comments and share their personal ideas. Bloggers are also encouraged to post links or pictures to support their idea or theme. Blogs can range from a wide variety of topics such as, home design, cooking, to even sports. Most Blogs consist of the authors personal thoughts and feelings on the situation they are writing about. A wide variety of users participate in blogging as well, such as; universities, sports teams, and news teams. Some blogs allow the blogger to write a blog and upload them at a later time. There are several very important things to understand that go along with blogging. These things are, Archives, Feeds, Blogrolls and, Managing Comments. Most blogs have an archive base which keep posted blogs related to the date they were posted so that if someone were to look for a specific date they could find the blog that went along with it. The front pages of blogs often times will have the calendar dates with the links to the specific posts. Archives may also be based off of a category, author or alphabetically. Archives are not limited to this but these are the most common types. Feeds are a way for bloggers to keep up on the newest information that is being posted on other blogs. It is a specific software that allows it's users to look up the new content. Blogrolls are a list of links to other websites that the specific authors finds interesting. The links are usually very similar to the content being blogged about. It may function as a side bar or can even be opened as a separate web page. Managing comments allows for users to be interactive with one another commenting on articles or posts that interest them. It it also a way for the publisher to delete any unwanted comments or report them as spam. Blogging can be a crucial tool for education classes of all ages. Blog sites can be used for primary accounts of research. These are documents based completely on what a specific person went through and or faced. This can be used as primary texts for research. It also can help an educator find multiple links and or other articles on a specific topic they want to teach on. Blogs can also serve as a way for the children to write journal entries and have it published so the class can see. There are multiples ways that blogs can be a helpful resource in the classroom!

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