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Blogs
What is it? 
A blog, derived from the term "Web log", is a website where content is written in a journal entry style. Many blogs function as online personal diaries and typically provide commentary on topics ranging from politics to games to daily activities. A typical blog includes text, images, and links to blogs, websites, videos, and audio files.
A blog entry usually consists of:
- Title: Headline of the post.
- Permalink: URL of the full article.
- Comments: To provide feedback and discussion.
- Categories/Tags: Listing subjects relevant to the post.
- Trackback/Pingback: A list of links to sites referred to in the post.
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What are the educational uses and benefits?
Assignments:
- Student maintained blogs: Students can regularly post about current course topics. For example, in a foreign language course students can post a few paragraphs each day in the foreign language to gain more experience than with regular textbook exercises.
Class Environment:
- The instructor can use the blog as a classroom environment by posting and updating information through the use of blogging software.
Discussion:
- Instructors can facilitate online discussions among students in order to help keep them involved in the course.
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How do I get started?
- Register with a blogging site.
- Choose a template for your site and if desired, personalize your site.
- Add any components to your site that you wish such as polls, links, and so on.
- Give permission to others who you wish to allow to be an author on your site.
- Use the blogging manager to begin writing your blogs.
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Where can I learn more?
- Blogger: A free blog publishing system.
- Blog software comparison chart: A chart detailing the functions of eight different blogging tools.
- Ning: A free social networking platform with integrated blogging capabilitiesM
- Wikipedia - Blogs: Detailed definition and examples of Blogs.
- WordPress: A free blog publishing system.
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