1. Whats a Blog? A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are usually shown in date order with the latest posts shown first. Presented by Robbie McGougan

2. Our East School Blog showing the way blog posts default to most recent entries first.

7. That publishing could include any number of different types of content e.g. learning intention and success criteria for an art class.

12. If you use 'Thunderbird' email you can easily synchronise your desktop calendar with Google Calendar so you only have to update one calendar and the other will duplicate this.

14. http://edublogs.org/

15. http://wordpress.org/

16. http://www.epals.com/groups/about/pages/schoolblog.aspx

17. http://classblogmeister.com/

19. Most of the above cost nothing to join and 'Wordpress' offers up to 2GB of storage with no cost involved.

20. Epals offers student blogs monitored by the teacher, every student post notifies the teacher's class blog. The student posting will not be published until the teacher allows it.

21. Info that can help me get blogging.. Links for tutorials on using Edublogs and web 2.0. Acknowledgment - Joe Freidhoff provides many useful 'how to's' from the links below. Joe is a doctoral (he may now be a doctor) student in the Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy program at Michigan State University. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Grand Valley State University. Joe focuses on new literacy practices of pre-service teachers, teacher collaboration and community, and teaching in online environments. http://edublogs.org/2006/03/06/getting-started-with-edublogs/ http://freidhof.fts.educ.msu.edu/Tech_Handouts/tech_handouts.htm http://brentmack.edublogs.org/2006/04/19/literacy-breakfast/ http://edublogs.org/videos/