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Blogs allow students, teachers and administrators to have a public web log. This online journal has various settings to control who can read them.
Blogs allow students, teachers and administrators to have a public web log. This online journal has various settings to control who can read them.


Many companies and organisations on the web provide blog sites and they are generally free. The largest company to do this is blogger which is owned by Google. There are also many Open Source web applications that can be downloaded and installed freely. The most common of these is Wordpress.
Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, teachers, and students can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, teachers can create Course level tags, and students can create their own list of tags.
 
Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, Teachers, and users can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, Teachers can create Course level tags, and users can create their own list of tags.


When a blog entry is created, a user can select which tags they wish to associate with their new entry. - multiple tags can be selected. Users can also select who they want the blog entry to be available to - (depending on the global settings of the site.)
When a blog entry is created, a user can select which tags they wish to associate with their new entry. - multiple tags can be selected. Users can also select who they want the blog entry to be available to - (depending on the global settings of the site.)


==See also==
==See also==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog Wikipedia on Blogs]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830 Blogs and comments] forum discussion
*[[Blogs development]]
==Blogs outside of Moodle==
Many companies and organisations on the web provide blog sites and they are generally free. The largest company to do this is blogger which is owned by Google. There are also many Open Source web applications that can be downloaded and installed freely. The most common of these is Wordpress.


*[[Elgg]]
*[[Elgg]]
*[http://www.blogger.com Blogger.com]
*[http://www.blogger.com Blogger.com]
*[http://www.wordpress.org Wordpress]
*[http://www.wordpress.org Wordpress]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog Wikipedia on Blogs]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830 Blogs and comments] forum discussion
*[[Blogs development]]
[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:Blog]]
[[Category:Blog]]

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Blogs allow students, teachers and administrators to have a public web log. This online journal has various settings to control who can read them.

Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, teachers, and students can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, teachers can create Course level tags, and students can create their own list of tags.

When a blog entry is created, a user can select which tags they wish to associate with their new entry. - multiple tags can be selected. Users can also select who they want the blog entry to be available to - (depending on the global settings of the site.)

See also

Blogs outside of Moodle

Many companies and organisations on the web provide blog sites and they are generally free. The largest company to do this is blogger which is owned by Google. There are also many Open Source web applications that can be downloaded and installed freely. The most common of these is Wordpress.