What's a 'Team Blog'?

Well … perhaps I should start by telling you what a blog is, just in case you've never come across them before. The term is short for 'web log', which is a way of posting your ideas on the web quickly and easily, and letting other people read them.

This is a 'Team Blog', which means that everyone on the course is also able to make posts of their own, and to comment on other people's posts (with a normal blog, the only person allowed to post is the person whose blog it is).

You can use blogs for lots of purposes - on this course the purpose of the Team Blog is to allow you to post feedback from your Study Group Meetings (and other course events), and to comment on posts from other people on the course (including me, the teacher).

You can create your own blogs and Team Blogs too, now that you're on Blogger (it doesn't cost anything …). My daughter's got a team blog going for her friends in class 8, which they use to share their ideas about books they've read and films they've seen.