Web Presence Overview Lesson

This book explores options for creating a web presence and ideas about what you can include and how to optimize its usefulness.

Blogs

Blog is short for "web-log", basically a digital journal. They were originally started as tools for people to write about various topics and personal experiences with regular entries. Now they can do much more with sidebar widgets, multimedia, and interactive elements. Common blogs for educators include Blogger and Edublogs.

In their simplest form,
blogs are a display of entries with some stuff on the sides (links to resources/ pages, archives of past entries, etc.). They can also be customized in complex ways with multiple pages and elements. Blogs are good classroom sites for those who want a simple way to share and communicate. They are not as customizable as websites and typically cannot do as much.