FAQs: The difference between a website and a blog?

Someone asked "What's the difference between a blog and any other website...?"

I came across this explanation on Wikipedia the other day:

How blogs differ from traditional sites
A blog has certain attributes that distinguish it from a standard web page. It allows for easy creation of new pages: new data are entered into a simple form (usually with the title, the category, and the body of the article) and then submitted. Automated templates take care of adding the article to the home page, creating the new full article page (Permalink), and adding the article to the appropriate date- or category-based archive. It allows for easy filtering of content for various presentations: by date, category, author, or other attributes. It allows the administrator to invite and add other authors, whose permission and access are easily managed.

I'd suggest that it's the ease of blogging that really distinguishes it, at least from the teacher's point of view, that and the fact that much of the work is automated for you.

A blog requires very little technical knowledge, and creating it (as opposed to actually writing it) takes up very little time -- and the end result looks fairly professional.

You probably don't have the technical knowledge to create a professional looking website -- and certainly don't have the time to create one for your class/es.

Let me recommend Wikipedia -- it's a great alternative to Google-is-Evil...