By Craig Ross

What are we doing today?

• What is a blog? • Why learn to blog? • Who blogs? • How do you start blogging?

70% of teens use social networking sites

What is a blog?

• “ Blog” is short of “Web Log” • Some people also call it a online journal

• How do you recognize a blog? – It is dated and organized – It is updated regularly

– It lets you leave comments! • A person who blogs is called a BLOGGER

• Blogger is also a website!

Why learn to blog?

• Blogs is a tool! • They make it easy to: – Create a website – Share information with others – Easy to update – Lets you focus on the content – Share links, pictures, videos, audios and more!

Why learn to blog?

• Blogs help young people to: – Learn the latest online technology – Improve typing – Improve editing skills – Showcase your photos, drawings and writings to

the whole world! – Improve your spelling! – Increase communication with friends and relatives – Get to know more people!

Who Blogs?

• Technorati: tracking over 112.8 million blogs

64% of all teens are creating content onlineContent

stories

Getting a audience

Internet The Space for Teens

• 93% of teens use the internet 12-17• 30% of teens keep blog and regularly post • 54% read blogs• 33% of online teens swap files on peer to peer• 63% of teens go online daily

How do you start blogging?

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