Activity 4- Vocabulary Development

• While you visit the following blogs, identify the vocabulary words on your vocabulary sheet. Think about where you find them on a blog and what do they do.
• Blogs
• Personal Blogs
  • France Tales
  • http://davidsswamp.blogspot.com/
    
  • Nerdy Nomad
• Humor
  • News Groper Parody Blogs
• Technical
  • Tech Crunch
  • Gizmodo
  • Engadget
  • Hack a Day
• Political
  • Daily Koz
  • The Huffington Post
  • Crooks and Liars
• Professional
  • Design Disease
  • Microsoft
• Aviation Blogs
  • http://www.thirtythousandfeet.com/blogs.htm
  • http://www.myflightblog.com/index.php
  • http://tonysclimateblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/clean-aviation-news-from-airbus-boeing.html
• You can also do a Blog Search using Technorati or Blogger.
• There are millions more blogs and categories.
• You can also go to this online dictionary on the wordpress.com site to see the definitions. Try to put it in your own words. Use what you saw on the blogs and what the dictionary said to create a definition.
• Vocabulary: blog, post, page, comment, header, footer, content, blogosphere, blogroll, content, draft, pingback, plugin, dashboard, RSS, sidebar, theme, php
• We’re ready to sign up for an account and begin blogging.