Blogs

A quest for discovery…

What is a blog?

Your task is to do some internet research and discover what a blog is.

You will be visiting some blogs written by children in NZ.

You will also be finding out how blogs are different to other types of webpages.

Click the button when you’re ready to proceed.

This will take to the first page Next pagePrevious page

What do blogs have in common?

You need to visit each of the blogs and note down what things they all have, what things some of them have and what things they don’t have that other pages do have. Enter this information on your sheet.

Click when you’re ready.

The Blogs

Click on each link to visit the website - then alt-tab back here to the next link.

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What did you find out?

Make sure you write down the information you found out about the blogs.

Your key questions here are:1. What is a blog?2. What do blogs have in common?

What makes them different?

Now you are going to visit some other websites that aren’t blogs. You will be looking at the sites to discover what makes them different to the blogs that you’ve visited.

The non-blogs

Click on each link to visit the website - then alt-tab back here to visit the next link.

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What did you find out?

Make sure you add the information to your sheet.

Your key questions here are:3. What makes these websites different

to blogs?4. Do these sites have anything in

common with the blogs you visited?

What does a good blog have?

Now you’re going to visit the blogs again and choose the one blog you like the most and the one blog you like the least. You will need to explain why you chose these two blogs.

The Blogs again

Click on each link to visit the website - then alt-tab back here to the next link.

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Sharing the information

Now you need to share the information you’ve just found out about blogging and what makes a good blog.

Plan this out in your Reading/Language book. Think about your title, how you might illustrate the presentation and what you want to say.

Decide on how you will share the information - Powerpoint (like this), movie or something else.

More questions …

5. How could we use a blog in our classroom …

6. Or in our school …7. What could we use a blog for?8. What should we include in the blog?Include the answers to these questions

in your report.

Congratulations

Once you’ve reached here you will have finished your quest to discover what blogs are all about.

Perhaps you’re now ready to help set up a blog for our class.