Up there in orange is the title. Down here is the body of the post (we call individual selections blog "posts"). I can imagine all kinds of content here, a teacher posting assignments for his students to check in with at home and leave their questions in the comments section. Student journals on everything from biology labs with labeled diagrams to maps and descriptions of civil war battles to biographies of famous people or somewhat less famous pets:
There are also plenty of uses for blogs in the library: Book reviews, announcing new arrivals, publicizing library programs, making pathfinders for specific projects, tech support:
or sharing a little book related humor with your students:
video by The Fifth District
Throughout this post you'll have noticed the hyperlinks, which take you to other sites when you click them. This is an easy way to reference other websites in your blog post. Sometimes blog posts are simply a collection of links that may or may not have commentary. A library pathfinder might look something like that, or a student's virtual notes for a research project.
A few last things:
- you can change text color
- use different fonts
- or styles
- use bullets
- or make a numbered list
And if you look below you can add tags to categorize your post and help you find it later.
I hope you enjoyed this little demonstration, classmates, now, everyone else, back to your regularly (intermittently?) scheduled blogging.
