F.+Blogs

A blog is basically an online journal. A user creates their blog space and updates it whenever they want. Creating a blog can be as easy or as hard as the user wants it to be. There are all different types of blog sites (some common ones are listed below) that can either act as a word processor or need technical code and jargon. It is up to the user how they would like to do it.
 * __What is a Blog?[[image:whatisablog.jpg width="120" height="90"]] __**

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**__How can a Blog be used in the classroom?__** Blogs are a great way for teachers to communicate with students and parents. Many teachers create a class blog where they can update students and parents on what is happening in the class and upcoming assignments. They are also able to upload pictures to the blog so that work and projects can be viewed by the whole class. Blogs are also fun for the students. They can create and maintain blogs for a unit or throughout the school year based on what the teacher is looking for.

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**__Here is a list of some common blog sites:__**







***There are thousands of blog websites available, just by searching Google or Yahoo!. The above listed blogs are all free of charge.***