Wiki Page, Social Media in Education: MODULE 4: Blogs

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2016-10-10T01:42:33-06:00

What is a BLOG?

"Once upon a time, weblogs were automatically collated overviews of data about visitors to a web server. That's changed. Nowadays the texts called weblogs are definitely not written by a computer. Weblogs today are subjective annotations to the web rather than statistics about it. Weblogs, or blogs as they are affectionately termed, are frequently updated websites, usually personal, with commentary and links... A blog consists of many relatively short posts, usually time-stamped, and organised in reverse chronology so that a reader will always see the most recent post first. Today our weblogs are among the most popular channels for frequent exchange of information" (Morrison, 2002).

A blog or a webblog is a website where user-generated content are published in chronological order with the most recent post appearing first. A blog typically have a postings and comment section. You can also find links embedded on the postings to increase interactivity.

Two of the most popular websites for bloggers are WORDPRESS and BLOGGER. These two websites are dedicated places to start a blog.

WHAT IS WORDPRESS?

An online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. It is also considered as one of the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS).

WHAT IS BLOGGER?

A blog publishing service that allows multiple users to create time stamped written entries. The blogs are hosted by Google on one of their subdomain called blogspot. Similar to a wordpress it is easy to create a blog from Blogger and it can become a powerful tool to share information.

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