The first task in our Web 2.0 Learning is to create a blog. The blog you create will be your own personal journal of your journey through the Big-9 and if someone is facilitating this for you they can follow your posts. In other words, when you create your first blog post 'Blogging in Blogspot', you'll have completed the first task in the Big-9 and this post will be the culmination of that work. As you progress through the other tasks, you'll post 8 more times with each post representing another step closer to completion.
A blog is short for Web-Log, or a log on the Internet. It journals the writing of a given author around the topic of their choice. Take a look at the different examples here to get an idea of how students, staff, and even entire schools use blogs to share their thinking with the world.
Click here for a how-to document for creating your blog in Blogspot. As the content of your first post, discuss where in your school or professional life you might blog to share your thinking with others. A second idea would be to blog about a lesson where students would blog around a topic and then read each other's blogs and comment. Then once you post your first entry, email your blog address (ie. myblogname.blogspot.com) to your facilitator.
