What is a Blog?

Blogs are like online journals. They are websites where the blogger writes and posts entries (articles or photos or videos). The entries are called "posts" and are put in chronological order with the newest ones at the opening page of the blog.

Why build blogs?

Blogs are easy to create and update, and they let you to share your news and thoughts with friends or with anyone in the world.

Blogs can be used:

• to express personal opinions.
  
• to share knowledge and opinions about books, sports teams, recipes, robots ;-), photography, etc.
  
• to have online class discussions of a teacher or student's ideas on a topic.
• as an educational medium.
• and even as a campaign strategy for presidential candidates.

Watch the video below to become an instant blog expert!

Blogs in Plain English video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

You can easily create a blog by going to Blogger.com - but remember that what you put in the Internet lives forever so always say kind things about people and don't give out personal information!

Now add a comment about what you learned about blogs and if you think you'd ever want to start a blog. If you did, what topic would you want to blog about?