What can you do with a blog?

A blog is the simplest, fastest way to create a website, either for yourself or for use with students.

A blog also has an important added bonus: it's possibly also the fastest way to becoming confident about using technology.

Some of the advantages of a blog:

• Easy to set up
• Easy to use (with great "Help!" files, apart from anything elese, at least on blogger.com)
• Looks professional
• Can be used to communicate
• Gives a purpose to writing
• Allows things to be shared
• Good for motivation

What could you use a blog for?

• As a purely personal diary, or for some other personal purpose (photographs? travel? recipes?)
• For the purposes of professional development (to reflect on your teaching...)
• As a means of giving your confidence about using technology a huge boost
• For providing your students with something to read / do
• etc

You can also have a "team blog", with more than one member, which you could use with colleagues...

• For sharing ideas that work
• For action research
• etc

And you could of course have your students write them, too...

• Individually, as "learner diaries"
• For creative writing projects
• As a class blog, in which all of the class are members
• etc

You will find step-by-step instructions on how to set a blog up on Blogger.com and on Zoomblog.com here on this blog.