What is a blog?

"The word blog was formed by shortening two words: web Log .
Log - in English means log or diary. Web - network.
A blog is a kind of "monologue on a topic", interrupted and directed by comments, questions and other activities of listeners and readers. "

"A blog is a website whose main content is regularly added records (posts), images or multimedia. For blogs, non-long records of temporal significance are typical. Bloggers call people who lead the blog. The totality of all Weblog blogs is usually called the blogosphere.

According to the authors, blogs can be personal, group. For blogs, the ability to publish reviews by visitors is characteristic ..

The first blog is the page of Tim Berners-Lee, where he, starting in 1992, published news. The blogs were widely distributed since 1996. In August 1999, Pyra Labs, a computer company from San Francisco, launched the site Blogger.com, which became the first free blogging service.

What is the advantage of blogs?

Convenience for creating content

Modern blogs use a convenient interface for creating multimedia pages. You can easily add photos, video and audio files. You can include in the blog various interactive objects: presentations, voting, crossword puzzles, etc.

Simple and convenient communication

Unlike forums and guest blogs, you can organize a discussion for each new article. Readers can leave their messages as comments to articles. This allows the teacher to conduct various competitions and conduct classes using feedback.

Dynamic

Unlike websites, blogs are updated more often, which makes it possible to significantly expand the range of search queries, which means attracting more audience and keeping them.

Absence of annoying advertisements and banners.

How and where to create a blog?

Www.livejournal.com - LiveJournal is an easy-to-use tool for self-expression and communication on the Internet. You can set the access level for each record and decide who can read or comment on it.

Www.diary.ru - @ diaries - a web-service of online diaries, personal and collective (communities) belonging to registered users of the site www.diary.ru.

Blogs@mail.ru is a free service of keeping personal diaries (blogs). To create your blog does not need a special registration, it is enough to already have a mailbox on Mail.Ru.

Http://pedsovet.org/blogs/ - blog on the website of the Pedagogical Council

Http://blogspot.com - blog on the site of the blog post.

Http://kidblog.org - Blog for teachers and students, you can create a blog controlled by a teacher for your class.

Http://blog.7ya.ru - blog on the site 7я.ру

How to blog?

Modern blogs use a convenient interface for creating content.

In addition to text, you can add to the page:

• Drawings
• Video
• Audio
• Flash objects

You can create a page in two modes:

• Visual: Using the WYSIWYG editor
• Manual: Using an HTML editor

"A blogging teacher becomes technologically and communicatively competent in the process of becoming familiar with this technology. At first it is important for him to learn not only what to write, but also how to write.

The most important thing is to observe the culture. What should be the ideal image of such a teacher? When using materials from other blogs, he must adhere to the following rules:

• Indicates a link to authorship;
• Skillfully applies and uses various useful web services, new methods of organizing training, new ways of interacting interactively with the school community;
• Selects a user-friendly interface;
• Observes interactivity and multimedia;
• Uses tags to document documents, creates hyperlinks; Text materials makes it extremely comfortable for reading in terms of usability;
• Does not forget that the language used in the articles, as well as in the comments to them, should remain literate and have no destructive effect on potential co-bloggers. "

How to use the blog in class?

"The spectrum of using the blog is wide enough: to publish in it additional tasks for" advanced "students, to implement the principle of training ahead of time. And perhaps, on the contrary, for lagging guys, to stimulate their interest in the subject. In a skillful hands, a teacher's blog can solve many organizational problems: timely informing about all urgent events of the class, additional tasks, meeting time. Blog educator while helping self to master new literacy, encourages practice in creating texts or multimedia objects.

You can keep several blogs at the same time. In this case, the blogs are divided into different areas of professional activity:

• Blog for creating a piggy bank of methodical materials,
• Blog in support of the educational project,
• A blog for communicating with class students and parents,
• Blog-educational notebook of the student or the whole class,
• Blog for the professional community,
• Blog-summary,

Blog for the packaging of the educational content of a topic. "

Consider the application of the blog in training

1 Testing

You can conduct online testing among students. To do this, create a test using the test generator, for example, on the website Testmoz (http://testmoz.com) and put a link to the blog.

2 Competitions, quizzes and olympiads

• Contests can be different:
• Find picture
• Creative tasks
• Well no

3 Implementation of practical tasks in computer science

• Answer the questions
• Run the work on the computer (create a text or picture), using the instruction

4 Conducting remote extracurricular activities

5 Individual distance classes with strong or retarded students

6 Communication with colleagues:

• Round table
• Trade union shares

"The basis of the new generation standard is a social contract - a new relationship between the individual, the family, society and the state, which most fully realize the human rights and the citizen.

The educational blog of the teacher can be a decisive tool in organizing a quality and effective learning interaction. The transition to an information society is not possible without the adoption of innovative behavior by all participants in the educational process. A conductor in the modern networked world should be a teacher who has a clear information adequacy.

The paradox of education is that people from the past teach the people of the future. Does this mean that the teacher should remain young in his work - to keep pace with the times, not to stop at what has been achieved, always be in search, thereby improving the quality of education? ..

In a world that is becoming increasingly dependent on information technology, students and teachers simply have to be familiar with them.

The use of computer technology is not the influence of fashion, but the need dictated by today's level of development of education.

The teacher's blog is an expedient tool in the hands of a professional teacher. "

For example, you can see my blog - All for Education