As we begin to write our first blog posts it is important to understand the difference between a blog post and a comment. Here is a short table showing what are often the differences:

Comments
Blog Posts

Posted on someone else’s site
Directly related to the Post the comment is for.
You are writing as a viewer
Usually shorter, one [...]

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What is a feed reader and why are we using them in Science class? I want to take the opportunity to explain some of the power of this tool. If you haven’t heard of RSS before or you are new to the technology, you should first view the video posted on our wiki.
I [...]

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This week we began using RSS to feed content to us. The sites you have linked to with Google Reader should give you a fair amount of material to choose from. Your assignment is to choose one or more articles to summarize while using Google Docs. The goal of this exercise is [...]

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