Blogs are websites where posts are displayed in reverse chronological order, allowing anyone to create one without HTML knowledge. Blogs come in many forms from professional news sites to personal blogs sharing family news, and they allow quick and easy sharing of information like research that normally takes months to publish.

1. Activity One
Blogs

2. What is a blog?
• Blogs are websites in which entries known as posts are displayed in reverse
chronological order.
• A blog can be created by anyone as no knowledge of hypertext mark-up
language (HTML) is needed.
• This means that there are a diverse range of blogs on different topics from
professional companies or organisations such as new sites like ABC to the
average person who wants to share family news.
• Blogs allow people to disseminate and share information quickly and easily.
• For instance information that is generally potentially takes months to publish in
an academic journal can be shared with peers within days of completing a
study.

3. Blogs in plain english
Watch this short video on blogs produced by the
Common Craft Show.
(This video can also be found at Blip.tv and TeacherTube.)