What is Blogger?
1- Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.
2- Blogs are like mini websites.
3- They are free, easy to use, update automatically and can be shared with others by simply providing the blog address. 4- The majority of Blog sites offer a variety of page styles to fit almost any user theme (or profile). All you need to start a blog is an verifiable email address.
5- You can read the information posted and learn things you didn't know.
6- Corporate blogs lets you know more about what it is happening behind the scenes of a product or company.
7- Blogs or ( Weblog ) are online journals that allow other people to read your thoughts and reply to them.
8- Because blogs are not private, they are not a place to put personal private thoughts, but a place to talk about ideas you want to share with the rest of the world.
9- Tell people about:
- your trip around the world or what's like to live in a different country.
- Share your idea about a topic like Politics or Religion.
- Talk about your hobby, share music, videos, and your interest.
- Link to other interesting sites on the internet and discuss them.
- Promote or sell something you crated.
10- Blogs are great for many things:
- Demonstrate your expertise.
- Communicate with students and teachers.
- Collaborate with other students or your group work.
- Great at giving people a scene of your personality.
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Background and Information about Blogger:
Blogger.com is one of the most popular blogging software programs available. There are two main reasons for its popularity. First, it's been around longer than just about any other blogging software, so bloggers are very familiar with it. Second, it's completely free and easy to use. SinceGoogle purchased Blogger.com, the features and tools available to Blogger.com users continue to grow.
"Blog" is an abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites, usually presented as a list of entries in reverse chronological order. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.
Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all types of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts.
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Essential Features of Blogs:
Since Google bought Blogger.com, new features are introduced frequently such as the integration of Google's Picasa service to make posting of photos easier than ever.
Many bloggers love Blogger.com because it automatically integrates with Google AdSense, so bloggers can earn money from their blogs from day one. Additionally, Blogger.com users can edit their blogs' codes to include advertising from other companies as well.
- The Blog Content:
Content is the major part for any web site. Retail sites feature a catalog of products. University sites contain information about their campuses, curriculum, and faculty. News sites show the latest news stories. For a personal blog, you might have a bunch of observations, or reviews. Without some sort of updated content, there is little reason to visit a web site more than once.
On a blog, the content consists of articles (also sometimes called "posts" or "entries") that the author(s) writes. Yes, some blogs have multiple authors, each writing his/her own articles. Typically, blog authors compose their articles in a web-based interface, built into the blogging system itself. Some blogging systems also support the ability to use stand-alone "weblog client" software, which allows authors to write articles offline and upload them at a later time.
On a blog, the content consists of articles (also sometimes called "posts" or "entries") that the author(s) writes. Yes, some blogs have multiple authors, each writing his/her own articles. Typically, blog authors compose their articles in a web-based interface, built into the blogging system itself. Some blogging systems also support the ability to use stand-alone "weblog client" software, which allows authors to write articles offline and upload them at a later time.
- Comments:
Want an interactive website? Wouldn't it be nice if the readers of a website could leave comments, tips or impressions about the site or a specific article? With blogs, they can! Posting comments is one of the most exciting features of blogs.
Most blogs have a method to allow visitors to leave comments. There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave comments without even visiting the blog! Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can inform other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles. All this ensures that online conversations can be maintained painlessly among various site users and websites.
- Archives:
blog is also a good way to keep track of articles on a site. A lot of blogs feature an archive based on dates (like a monthly or yearly archive). The front page of a blog may feature a calendar of dates linked to daily archives. Archives can also be based on categories featuring all the articles related to a specific category.
It does not stop there; you can also archive your posts by author or alphabetically. The possibilities are endless. This ability to organize and present articles in a composed fashion is much of what makes blogging a popular personal publishing tool.
- No limitation:
A key advantage in choosing Blogger.com as your blogging software is its versatility. Bloggers are not limited in the amount of traffic or storage space their blogs generate and use, and bloggers can create as many blogs as they want. Bloggers who use Blogger.com also have the ability to manipulate the templates available to them in order to create more unique blog themes.
- Ease of Use:
Blogger.com is often referred to as the easiest blogging software to start a new blog and the easiest to use for beginner bloggers, particularly when it comes to publishing posts and uploading images. Blogger.com also offers a wide variety of features. Unlike other blogging software programs where additional features are available at an extra charge or through external upload (which can be confusing for beginner bloggers), Blogger.com gives users easy access to the tools they need to customize their blogs to meet their needs.
While Blogger.com is easy to use, it does cause frustration for some users. Blogger.com is notorious for having system outages when bloggers cannot access their blogs. These outages can go from minor inconveniences to major problems depending on the purpose of your blog and your need for a certain amount of up-time.
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Blogger.com blogs that are hosted by Blogger.com are given URL extensions of '.blogspot.com'. The domain name a blogger chooses for their Blogger.com blog will precede '.blogspot.com' (for example, www.YourBlogName.blogspot.com).
Unfortunately, a Blogspot extension has come to connote an amateur blog. Professional bloggers or more experienced bloggers who want to use Blogger.com as their blogging software often choose to use a different blog host which allows them to choose their own domain name without the Blogspot extension.
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Application For Teaching/Learning:
To provide a personal or team record of thoughts and ideas, learning experiences, field notes, project diaries, research progress and other reflections, in a format accessible on the web.
Students sometimes use blogs to record and reflect on their learning experiences, whether in the classroom or tutorials. Its personal nature facilitates the inclusion of aspects that may lie outside of the usual formal learning and teaching spaces. You can opt to keep the entries private or to allow others to comment on what you've written, thereby encouraging critical reflection.
In project work, it can be used for you to keep track of thoughts and ideas, create a written record of learning, jot notes following meetings, and generally support the flow of information. It is an ideal way of providing you with content or basic notes that can be written up later on for more formal documentation such as reports.
Academically, you can set up a blog to act as a kind of electronic tutorial room into which you invite your students to read it and contribute to it. This enables you to set up a tool to reflect progress and development and a dialogue that fosters the exchange of ideas. It can be a forum for discussing any topic and which permits contributions from everyone involved. This can enable all involved to come to the next face-to-face meeting or tutorial much more prepared and ready to debate.
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