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"An Introduction to the World of Blogging"

This guide was written to give teens, parents, and teachers insights into blogging. Blogging, or weblogging, is a form of expression that most parents and teachers didn’t have access to in their teen years. We used telephones, wrote letters, and some even communicated by email. For our private thoughts we kept diaries and journals. We shared those thoughts only with select people. It was considered a violation of our privacy for someone uninvited to read them.
Today, many adults and children are expressing themselves, even some of their private thoughts and ideas, on web pages on the internet in the form of blogs. After a brief look at what blogging is and what kinds of blogs teens are communicating on, this guide will answer the following questions:
For teens
  • Why should I blog?
  • How can blogging help me?
For parents
  • What do I need to know about blogging to keep my children safe?
  • Should I monitor my teen’s blogs?
For teachers
  • Is blogging beneficial for students in a school setting?
  • How can I incorporate blogging into my curriculum?
  • Who should be able to read my students’ blog postings? 
Although it has similarities with all of the earlier forms of education, and therefore has some of the same risks and benefits, blogging has its own unique set of positive and negative issues. This guide will help you discover that, when done safely, blogging as teens can help students develop skills that will be useful in their personal and professional lives.

Learn about important topics like these:

Finding the right tools to publish your blog - What is Wordpress? How is it different from LiveJournal? What features are important?

How can kids set up a blog? - There are all kinds of tools to help anyone set up a blog. What do kids need to know before they set out on the World Wide Web

How to avoid the risks of publishing on the Internet? - We all see the News every day of students being put at risk by predatory Internet users. How can you instruct your child or student to avoid them?

How can parents keep an eye on what their child is doing on the Internet - How can parents manage their child's Internet sessions at home, at the library and at school

Being careful about what your child blogs - It is called the World Wide Web for a reason, invasive and hurtful blogging can do more harm than your student intends.
 

The world of blogging is complex and ever expanding. Give your children and students the help they need to use all the information available on the Web without stumbling into the pitfalls waiting for the unwary.

 

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