Blogs

Answer these three questions about the tool that you are investigating. Describe your web2 tool. What is it? How might it be used in education. Give at least 3 examples of how it is currently used.

Go to Ypulse http://www.ypulse.com/ find one post and comment on it. You must put a link to the actual post and make a comment on the post. To do this you will need to register with the blog. you have to write the date of the post, the url and we need to see your comments as well.

This is a video explaning what blogs are and how to use them in plain english --> http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=367ab9eed5af82966a48 Thanks to teacher tube and commencrafts. media type="custom" key="1984076"

What Are Blogs
Blogs are sort of like online diaries, you can use them to write how you are feeling or tell people exciting news about what has happened or what is going to happen. On a blog you can choose to write about what ever you want, it's not like a news paper column where the journalist tells us about important word events, a blod is all personalised with news, observations, ideas and oppinions that are important to you. Once you make a blog it can be either private; so no one except you can read it, or it can be public; anyone from around the world who has the internet and is sighned up to that blog site can view it. It opens up a world where you can tell people what you think and share them oppinions with anyone, anywhere.

Anyone can use blogs for any reason;
To Express Opnions To keep family or friends updated with whats happening in there lives;

This is the screen inmage for blogger, it is a huge international blog site with thousangs of bloggers using it worldwide. This would be a useful edacational tool for students because it is a friendly enviroment where you can express your opinions freely and blogger is also very easy to use and set up. This would be useful for teachers because once again it is easy to use and easy to share work, opinions and ideas with other teachers. This is our schools Ning and Global Student which are just a couple examples of how teachers use blogs to teach. On our Global Student Ms.Baird what work we need to do and how to do things and our class are all easily able to see it and share it.

EXAMPLE
This is an example of my blog from Global Student. At the top of each post that is made are the deails, for example; The date it was posted, (August 26, 2008 @ 1:12am) The catergory (In this case there is none but for a more orgainised blogger it could help them navigate there posts and find things quicker.) Then there are the comments where i can discuss my opinions with other readers and they can tell me there's; There are also other little handy features that come in useful like calenders, an about me page (where the blogger can tell the reader a bit about themselves) and etc.