http://dcsenglish.edublogs.org/2005/10/24/what-is-a-blog/ a virtual palimpsest Sun, 07 May 2006 09:26:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://dcsenglish.edublogs.org/2005/10/24/what-is-a-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Palimpsest redux » Blogtalk: A Practical Introduction to Educational Blogging. Island Pro-D Day, Feb. 17, 06. Working Notes Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:50:51 +0000 http://dcsenglish.edublogs.org/2005/10/24/what-is-a-blog/#comment-63 [...] What is a Blog? Some excerpts from a blog entry by the same name: The term ‘blog’ is short for web log, which is basically a net based website that is organised in chronological format. David Tosh and Ben Werdmuller offer a more precise definition in “EPortfolios and Weblogs: One Vision for ePortfolio Development:” Ethos of the weblog: A weblog is defined as any web page with content organised according to date […] Weblogs have enormous strengths as a communication medium. This is in part due to some of the technology underlying them, but it is also related to the ease of publishing. A weblog author can press a button to load their weblog client, type some words into a box, press another button – and it’s posted up for the world to see. This immediacy and ease of use is paralleled only by email, which may go some way to explain weblogs’ increasing popularity. (“Eportfolios,” 3-4) [...] [...] What is a Blog? Some excerpts from a blog entry by the same name: The term ‘blog’ is short for web log, which is basically a net based website that is organised in chronological format. David Tosh and Ben Werdmuller offer a more precise definition in “EPortfolios and Weblogs: One Vision for ePortfolio Development:” Ethos of the weblog: A weblog is defined as any web page with content organised according to date […] Weblogs have enormous strengths as a communication medium. This is in part due to some of the technology underlying them, but it is also related to the ease of publishing. A weblog author can press a button to load their weblog client, type some words into a box, press another button – and it’s posted up for the world to see. This immediacy and ease of use is paralleled only by email, which may go some way to explain weblogs’ increasing popularity. (“Eportfolios,” 3-4) [...]

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