Blogs

=What is a blog?=
 * Blog is short for weblog - an easily updatable webpage with entries organised chronologically by date, usually in reverse order. You can add text, images, audio, video, and links. Blogging is used extensively by educators to share weblinks, personal insights, information and ideas with students and other educators.

Students can create blogs as a writing exercise, to manage and document the progression of a project, to share thoughts and ideas with classmates, or to reflect and make comment on the material and ideas presented to them.

There are several free blogging servers which you can join, create a blog based on a template, and start blogging in minutes.

The recommended site for teachers and students is [|edublogs.org] Have a read of [|10 ways to use your edublog to teach] for some more ideas. ||  ||   ||  ||

Once you've made a blog use this [|online tool] to test the readibility of your blog.
 * [[image:blog.jpg]] || ===Blogs are now also fully-integrated with Janisons. The advantage of using the blogs within Janisons is that it is embedded within your course, and therefore is password protected and only viewable and accessible to students in the course.=== ||