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Creating and Maintaining a Blog

our learners so today we are going to talk about how to create and maintain a block you must have heard about block must have read penny so what is a block block is basically a word which is a short form of V block it's kind of analog of law is it web-based or internet-based log will we keep record of all the things which are happening and people who do blogging are known as bloggers and when we write something on a blog it is called as a posting of a blog and one edits one's block quite regularly when one wants to share things with others a block is a discussion on informational website published on world wide web consisting of discrete of an informal diary style text entries posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order that is the most recent post will appear first so that you have the latest of the information in fact in 2009 basically it was individual blogs like everybody making their own blogs after 2010 there was a sudden rise in multiple author blocks so that enhanced the cooperative of the collaborative nature of knowledge that is all of us many people who work or believe in the same field or same field of knowledge we come together and write write a blog so that the readers have the latest information this was specially popular popular in the education field as well as in media where many authors are coming together to write the blog in fact micro blogging is has also become very popular as you can see the Twitter people Twitter even the officios government of issue or even the celebrities also do Twitter quite a lot when we look at the history of blog it came in 1997 by John Barger he gave the term web log it was a short form of log and Peter Munoz who jokingly broke the word as Vblock and popularized the term through his blog peter b.com in 1999 even Williams at pyrrha labs used block both as a noun and a verb that is when you say to block it also means that you edit your block how are you post on your blog and he devised the term blogger in connection with his spiral apps the blogger product leading to the popularization of this particular term in 1999 Evonne Williams and make they launched the site bloggers comm and later which was later taken up by Google in 2003 so what are the characteristics of a blog if you look at all the blocks mostly the blocks are textually nature when we convey something when we are trying to communicate or talk to somebody so they are primarily textual it also has predominance of photographs so it will be known as photo blocks if you how does a predominance of art artifacts then it becomes art block if it has predominance of videos it becomes v-log and it has more of music then we have mp3 blocks or also the podcasts when the block is dedicated to education that is as a teaching learning resource they are popularly known as a do blocks and edging blocks are one of the most popular January of blogs and we have already talked about micro blogging micro blogging is also very important giving the latest informations about anything which is happening around in the vault of knowledge so what is the uses or the advantages or block the four most you blog is that it is a platform for creativity for an individual or group of individuals to showcase what they have made their innovation their creative ideas so creativity exhibition of creativity showing creativity to others is one of the major news of blog the other is when we want to share our personal information with others so who will be interested in our personal information obviously people who are in our circle people who I want to convey my personal experiences my feelings my inner thoughts so personal blogs is another area which is quite popular but again it is limited in circulation it is also used for communicating or connecting with the customers the business houses they use blogs to communicate with their customers to lure them to their businesses so it is very effective and they are supposed to be the most attractive of the blog's because if they are attractive they are coming up with the catchy headlines then people come and connect to their business houses then when we use it for education of course then it becomes a do blog and it is used in teaching learning by oh as we talked to put ado blogs a teacher can use educational blocks or they do blocks for many purposes the four must be sharing of the latest in the new information so through the blog a teacher can always share the latest what is happening the new readings one can give and the latest information or the updated information related to the teaching and learning the teacher can also use it for interaction our teacher said something on a blog and let students who were not able to say answer in the class they felt shy in the class they can give their comments the blog can be using the interactive board the another reason another way a teacher can use it is using it as a website a website has LMS you can give material as a blog as a post and students can read it you can give new in you can give links to the new readings more references and that is how you can use blog very effectively in your teaching and learning it is like supplements it's supplements and complements your teaching learning activity so for a teacher blog is a technology which is very very important so block is a kind of website where you write on it ongoing basis it is not like you have written once do you write once a month it's like an ongoing thing so what you write or what you share information you express your views you give ref you reflect on certain things so they flicked on what is happening in the society reflect on the role of Technology in teaching in education you give them latest information to the your readers whatever is happening in the field on which you are blogging give latest information so that people come to your blog and read about it it also helps in classroom management as always it's said that you can give material manage till class through your blocks then it can also be a learning portfolio you can ask your students to make blocks and block beacons and evidence of their growth and learning say when they started learning in your class you did not know much about the concept or the content and as they grow these blocks become evidence of how they have grown in their classroom or teaching and learning and then of course it is also used for discussion so blog being a website has multiple roles and you can use for any one of them or maybe all of them who blogs can be of many types and one of the very popular one is personal blogs as I already said it is a form of online diary where the bloggers narrate their experiences feelings innermost thoughts with others who are the others who are interested to know about their personal experiences personal bloggers usually write about travel their hobbies their interests and trav dogs are very popular personal blogs so in fact people are more and more reading travelogue before going for travelling in that particular area there are others who blog about contemporary issues random thoughts and there are no rules themes of patterns for writing a personal dog it is just your creativity your way of expressing yourselves and if your style of expressing yourself catches the attention of the reader you become a popular blogger WordPress blogger blogspot they are the popular online platform through which you can do blogging then there are collaborative or group blogs where a group of like-minded people a group of researchers or workers who are particular working in an area they come together and maintain a blog for their readers for people who are interesting in that field so as I already say multi author blocks they're also very popular especially in media small pieces of information are easy to read for people who are traveling or on the go and that is why micro blogging has become popular and celebrities and politicians they all do micro blogging Twitter is one good example of it and as I've already said when the video becomes the predominant needs of blogging it is called video blog or V blog V blogs are becoming very popular with the rise of popularity of sites like YouTube you can see people getting popular people getting star in the world of V blogs and that YouTube is full of that then you have link logs a blog where you give links to various resources these resources could be teaching learning resources or resources of any other kind like if you are traveling then resources related to travel sites if you are interested in healthy eating then links relate related to healthy eating so a blog which is predominantly give is known as link locks then a block where you have more of images photo it is a place to exhibit your your photography skills your talent for photography then it becomes a photo blog they as I already discussed a blog where teaching learning resources are sure teaching learning information is sure is known as do blogs which could be formal through an institution or could be informal I am created by a teacher or a individual then we also have business blogs business blogs are basically created by business houses or businessmen a business blogger will write in a way to attract customers they will talk about the advantages of coming to their business so it is a way of luring your customers and clients then you have professional blogs professional bloggers are those who do blogging online all the time for earning money it is like a salary to them whatever they earn through blogs it is like a salary to them each block would need to have a potential for attracting large audience so blocks which are read by large audience large number of people they will be producing lot of traffic and being good for advertiser and product sales and that is why they earn money and the other professional bloggers then you also have niche blogs niche blogs are basically when you focus on a small specific area like healthy eating food blogging weight training poem writing calligraphy so these are the niche areas with people who are interesting in calligraph you will only read that blog so those kind of blogs are known as niche blogs you must be wondering how to write a blog so let's discuss few points how to write a good blog the foremost is that you should be you should have good communication skills not the verbal communication but the writing communication skills so but the three main which combine which are important while you write a blog is content writing that is your content should be sound then you should have a catchy headlines the headline should be catchy and the third is the type of two posts you're making so let's discuss one by one the content writing when you're writing the content it should be updated and the latest content don't give old information people are coming to your blog for the latest information too it should be updated content the other is the content should be all-time content like evergreen content it should be valid at all times people should be interested to read about it at all times and another area which you can write down is a controversial content the controversial content is like issues which will generate controversy people may have views for it or against it so for that also blocks are so you can encourage that also the headline should be catchy it should attract the attention of the reader so headlines like the best thing which can happen the top five things in the field the latest in the field no one can deny sale discount these are the these are the some of the words which catch the attention the third point is the types of post like how to how to write a poem how to write an essay how to work on word so and then this type of posts like the top 25 websites in the field of Education the top 10 authors who sell like hotcakes the question type do you know how to deal with delinquents in your classroom so if you put questions like that that becomes quite catchy then controversies do you think ICT is good for teaching learning in the younger children so if you have these kinds of posts it will attract readers and your blog will be popular so when you keep these points while writing it be catchy or it will be popular blog so when you are Sven you start writing you should have a central idea a holistic picture a complete idea then you start writing it should be well researched all the facts in hand and then we start writing and in case the small pieces missing you can always go and add it later but the holistic picture should be clear in front of you it should be well structured it should not be like you are writing at one whole two pages and there are no headings subheadings no bullet points so people who read blogs they want it to be well structured heading subheading points so they they're able to understand the concepts and the subconscious the writing style should be simple the sentences should be small the writing side should be lucid so L it will be communicated on a conversational style and obviously the it should be well edited they should not be grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes because that gives a wrong impression or a bad impression to the reader so you've written a blog you're the owner of your block so you as an owner or as an administrator of your blog there are certain things you have to do regularly to maintain your blog so what are these check and install updates the latest information on your blog should be there you must check for dead links on your blog if the link is not working it gives very bad impression to the readers so please check it regularly you take a backup taking backup is very important for a manager of a blog for your blog then you update content and the theme you should regularly update the content and the theme so that there is a novela T in your blog this is something it doesn't become monotonous then you must update plugins for your blog you should also optimize the blog site so that it works properly and smoothly and you must manage and moderate the comments and the discussion options options you should not let anybody use the abusive language so moderation of the discussion and the comments is a very important function of an admin of a blog so so let us learn how to create a blog so today we'll be creating a blog on bloggers calm I'll be using my gmail ID for creating a blog on blogger scope so if I go to my open my chrome then this is my gmail ID I'll just go to bloggers comm right I already have a block using this email ID but I can use it for making more blogs so I just go for a new blog so this is the interface you get for creating the new blog then you write I'll type ooh e are for you then address let's take we are since the name is this then I will not put term then let's see if this address is there sorry this is already taken so let's take and take W and this block addresses available so I'll just create a blog I also have to select a theme so let's select a simple theme to start with create blog I click on create blog and now this blog will open this is the blog no I don't want to use a domain name so this is the blog I have to create my first post so this is the post let's see the post title that is we are for you so this is a place where you will get all types of we are related to your field of study so the as you can see this is a text editor so I can insert a photograph also let me see I have a photograph I'll insert choose a file then this file let's see this is a file of a hanging bridge in mahalia so I'll just add selected so if I want to give a caption to it add caption this is a hanging bridge this was if this photograph was taken by me so there is no copyright issue in this please be very careful when you are uploading an image or something so this is how I wanted to let look then I will see best practices like you preview it so let me see the preview so this preview this is okay with me and you can see there are certain comment option is there that is I have made it people can comment on this so I'll just go ahead publish it so this is my first post it feels great to have your first post then as you can see published one stats status a column where you can see the kind of traffic on your blog so still since you are making it there's no views are available but then this is the way you can track how many people are visiting your blog and then if your blog becomes very popular then then you'll be able to get all the information from which side of the world they're coming etc then comments so you can this is there are no published comments otherwise if you want to if there is an abusive comment you can remove the content from here you can delete it you can add it into spam then earnings is when when your blog becomes popular then you can add Google Adsense and that will help you in only then pages pay if you want to give some information that will always be there it need not be latest but is it some evergreen information as we already talked evergreen information if you want to give for learners so let us create a page so let the title of the pages we are so the content I have already typed it so let me take it from here so I'll just copy paste it right and then if I want to make a link there is a very book good book available for basic reading about oh yeah so I'll put a link I'll just place it the link properly link it then then this is a basic reading on we are then web address I have already cooperated then okay as you can see this is the basic reading then I can publish it preview it and then publish it so this is my first page then if I want to create another page let me create another page then I'll show you how to include that page in your blog blended learning so I already have something written on the ended learning so I'll just copy from there and then post it here then again if I want to insert a link I'll text to display will be basic reading blended learning learning and then web address if I want to give let me take from the this link I have already copied it here then okay so now this page also I'll publish now if you view your blog these pages are not displayed here and you want your pages to be displayed because then they can come as a header so what you go you go to the layout layout shows how the things will be arranged on your main blog so this is where you can have this is the header which is we are for you remember and then after near that below that add the gadget so I want to add the gadget of pages so this is where is it pages pages I'll add right so now you can see home is by default then these were the two pages I created I'll click on those and I want them in that order no I want the ouvea to be before blended learning right then I'll just arrange them properly then save now if I want to see my blog how it looks now see you can see if I click on this this has been oh yeah this will take me to bend it learning and I can go to this reading as you can see basic reading on blended learning it will take me to that you are it right so let's come back here so this was the basically the layout we can make changes if I want to add some gadget by default about me and blog archive are there by default if I want to add a gadget it will be like there are so many features post block search I want to add block search I'll save it write anything else I want to add I can add one more let's see the profile blog archive can also be their followers some images can also be their the labels the pages we have already put in as an header then text can be there let's put something which is of use for everyone that just Wikipedia so say now save arrangement we have made changes in the arrangement we'll save the arrangement and now view the blog see you have it pages here and then you have Wikipedia and search table these are the gadgets you can see this site so the science shows that shows that this is these are the gadgets so if we that was the layout if you want to make any changes in the layout we can do change it if I want to add any gadget in the footer let's see I want to add what gadgets are available for the footer say featured post blog search profile blog archive blog list success subscription lists the feed the logo the contact form the attribution this is already added by default then you can report abuse and let me just contact from see now you view blog so the contact form is there so if you want the leaders to contact you that is added in the footer so this is how you can contextualize or design it according to your likings or Akane then you have themes so in the themes you have to kind of windows here one is how we look on the website and how do you look on the mobile as you can see both are same but if you want to change the mobile one you can go in change these are the various themes which are available content pose Soho notable simple and there are many themes available on the Google you can just go and use them and try them then settings so this is basically the setting of the blog say the title there if you want to add to description the privacy you want to be listed on the search engine then the address then if you want to link it to do me which we are not dealing then if you want to make it a multi-author blog you can add authors choose from contact then you can add then you can select so she is added name blog readers it is public so if you only want it to be private say within a closed group then you can be it private only to block authors or you can make it private only to those readers to whom you send the name so all these things are there let me make it public only then Save Changes right so now my blog have these changes saved then you have a reading list reading this list is a list of the blocks which you like to go to you read it so you can add on these lists so whenever you're blogging you must read somebody somebody's blog you must comment on somebody's blog and you must link it to those blog so that you have a community of blogs and that is how people working in the same area will grow so after come seeing this let us see another post another post is say on we are I'll just talk about the term we are control-c so that I don't have to type it is very useful for teaching and learning so I preview it as I said it's a best practice another post has come right then I'll just go in publish it so now I have to pose if I go and see my blog these are the two posts the data is there what time I have made it then if somebody wants to commit they can comment here they can subscribe too so this is how you can create and maintain your blog this is the navbar now but where you can see whose blog is this through which I count it is created if you really want to remove it let us do it then I will just edit it and off safe so now you read the blog so now there is no information so this is how you can create it manager blog on your most famous blocks of 2019 are given Lebanon although to which is maintained by America garwal you story dot-com shoutmeloud.com cash overflowed orton shocking these are the indian bloggers who are famous and they are listed as their top five blocks of 2019 please go and explore today we learnt about what is a blog blog is basically an online diary which you want to use to share your ideas experiences and in your thoughts with others we also learnt about what are the various types of blogs the uses of blocks the benefits of using blogs and then who will be interested in reading your blog we also learnt about how to write a blog what are the important things we should keep in mind while writing a blog like the headline should be catchy the type of posts your meeting making should be good you should have a central idea the writing style should be lucid which they should not be any grammatical mistake and you should start with Hawaii while you are writing your blog should start with a complete picture it should have latest information then we also talked about how to administer a block so what are the things as an administrator you should keep in mind and then we also learned about how to create a blog on blogger scomp so I hope you will go and create a blog on your bloggers dot-com happy learning [Music]