Lesson 1: Defing a Blog and Blogging.
Introduction: In this lesson we begin to look at what a blog is and what makes a blog unique. As we may or may not have known we have been working with a blog this entire mini course! For every discussion that we have posted or responded to that has been in a blog form. So know we are going to look at what makes it a blog by definition and what exactly is a blogger. We will be looking at other blogs and comparing them.
Objectives:
- Learners will be able to define blog.
- Learners will be able to define blogger.
- Learners will be able to compare and contrast while responding to other blogs.
Exploring:'
Blogging by definition( according to the website wikipedia): A Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.
Blogger (according to dictionary.com): a person who keeps a Web log (blog) or publish an online diary.
Now that we know the definition let's look at a video to gain a better understanding. What is blogging?
Now that we have a better understanding of what a blogger and what a blog is, let's look at some different examples of some blogs.
Enjoy! And feel free to explore any other topic of blogs!
Application:
Now that we have see the different types of blogs. We can go over to our blog forum and discuss which ones we liked best and why. And which ones we didn't like and why.
When reading other posts lets respond to at least one person's blog.
Moving on up: Now that we have gained a better perspective let's move on to creating our own blogs.
