What's a blog?

Nowadays Internet becomes our tool case for everything we search: recipes, movie reviews, or in an educational way activities or help. These things usually are written in blogs, but what is a blog?

As we saw, a blog is a personal site where writers (or bloggers) explain things for a large public in a model like an online diary or a journal. The blog structure is chronological, what it helps to understand and find the information you are looking for.  If we refer to the examples given to us, we could see different types of blogs: one of them written by a student, another by a teacher, or belongs to the municipal library. The thing that this blogs has in common is that all of them want to share information to everybody who needs help about different tips: counselling at the classroom, new dynamics, or share poems for children.

As a result, we could say that a blog is a personal site where you can share information to everybody and, in the same time, where you can receive comments about what you write. It is a mode of conversation between you and the people who share your interests.  In fact,  blogs are a useful tool at the classroom, as we see at the Lesson TS3*, a blog is a way to interrelate with your students, introducing an activity that allow the student to be responsible and creative about it in the comfort of their homes.

Finally, if we look at the Internet there are a lot of sites where people explains what a blog is, and how it works. We find some of them: blogs.law.columbia.edu, firstsiteguide.com/what-is-blog/, or socialnetworking.lovetoknow.com/everything-blogging/how-do-blogs-work. In this sites people help to understand this things, and encourage us to try and get a blog, because the best way to learn what a blog is, is not other than try for yourself.

*Lesson TS3 is in the book: Teaching Guidelines from the European Project LTE: Guidelines and Lesson Plans.