BLOG

 Start Your Own Blog to Share Your Ideas

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Hello English!

Have you created a blog? 

Some of you may have been familiar with blog and some may haven’t. 

In this article, I am going to do Question and Answer session to help you understand about a blog easily. So, without any further ado, let’s check it out!

Q1: What is a Blog?

Blog (a shortened version of “weblog”) is a potential tool for communicating ideas or informational websites displaying information. It is a platform where a writer or a group of writers share their views on an individual subject.

Q2: What are the purposes of Blog?

1. for personal use only

2. To help a business get to potential customers and grab attention.

3. To connect bloggers to the relevant audience.

4. To send quality leads to your website.

5. To showcase your niche authority and build a brand.

Q3: What are the purposes of Blog for teaching and learning activities?

1. To share the material in a blog for students or other teachers.

2. as a teacher learning tool in a blog

3. For teacher using a blog as tool in teaching and learning process can            increase the quality of teacher itself and teacher’s competency

4. Students can access teacher’s blog anytime and anywhere. And also, to         introduce students in information and technology.

5. as a tool to share ideas and opinion by comment section below.

Q4: What are terms of Blog?

1. Blogging is a collection of skills that one needs to run and supervise a blog. This entails equipping a web page with tools to make the process of writing, posting, linking, and sharing content easier on the internet.

2. Blogger is someone who runs and controls a blog. They are people who share their opinion or knowledge on different topics for a target audience.

 

Q4: What are the advantages of a blog over other communication?1. Blog is findable. 

It means, blog is easily found in search engines for people based on subject or topic, blogger’s name, and so on.

2. Blog is linkable. 

Most blogs connect with other information that is available on internet. One blog can connect to another, one website to  another and so on.

3. Blogging is sociable. 

Blog provides interesting discussion and information based on the topic. Bloggers can easily communicate with the readers in comment, share ideas or opinions which is can be seen other readers.

Q5: How to create a blog easily?

Stage 1: Visit a blog website. Click: www.blogspot.com

Stage 2:Create a blog account! Make sure, you’ve already had Gmail account.

Stage 3: Click “create a blog”!

Stage 4: Create a name for your blog!

Stage 5: Choose the theme of a blog! (You can change it later)

Stage 6: Your blog is ready.

 

Note:

1.   Click the new post to create an article.

2.   Click layout to set a display of a blog.

Here is an example of a blog. My blog is about education. For more information, please check other articles I made. 

This is link for my blog: www.raniamufidah.blogspot.com

Don’t hesitate to give a comment below. 

Thank you, see you next time!