Saturday, 21 January 2017

BLOGS

Blogs are one of the important webtools for language learning in modern times.Unlike others blogs too have a short history as it have emerged only in the past five to ten years . Blogs have first emerged in 1994 as Links.net created by Justin Hall and known as personal homepage  . In the year 1997 the term " weblogs" was coined by Jorn Barger . Furthermore in 1999 the term "weblogs" was shortened to 'Blogs' by a programmer called Peter  Merholz .
          After this platforms for blogs emerged . In 1999 there were two platforms namely Live  Journal and Blogger . Through platforms blogs become much popular and became a tool for communication as through blog one can post , edit or put a comment on a particular topic . Blog is one kind of online diary or a journal .
           Other then Twitter there are other microblogs also and they are Tumblr and Posterous . So in nutshell we can say that blog is a webtool which help in language learning .Through Blog one can work independently at their ease . It's a good tool for communication.