Blogging: Express Yourself!
What did we ever do without blogs? We did many things to get ourselves in print. Before computers we used hand written spirit masters and took them to the ditto machine to produce the purple-print hand-outs for our students. Ah... the smell of it! Moving ahead a few years brings us to the photo-copier days. We were excited to be allowed to use the copy machine which was reserved for administrative use only. Now we could use clip art to decorate our typed or hand written pages. The clip art was exactly that - images cut out from newspapers, coloring books, or even photo copies of pages from a book. I amassed a huge collection of clip art that I kept in three-ring binders and file folders. I first used an Apple IIe computer with PrintShop software to produce my first computerized publications. These were "print only" documents to be handed out to my students. I did not imagine then the possibilities that we now enjoy.
Electronic blogs or weblogs give us a new medium to express ourselves and share with our students, friends, family and the rest of the online world. Sometimes we might want to restrict who can view our blogs to maintain some privacy. Generally, most blogs are open to the public by default. What can you put in a blog? Anything that can be delivered through a personal computer such as text, audio, music, graphics and video. I have even heard of a system that will allow vibrations and smells to be relayed from a computer to the user. We'll have to make sure Barclay doesn't spend too much time in the Holo-graph!
Here is a list of blogs that I have created for various purposes, work, play and just trying things out.
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