The first posting!

Hello, and welcome to my blog.  I will be sharing my thoughts about educational technology as I work through a series of courses offered by Michigan State University.

This is my first blog and I have to say that it has been very easy to set up.  To get this far, I had to view video clips on Blogger and EduBlogs.  I found the Blogger video much more appealing because it was simple and straight to the point.  The EduBlog video went into too much detail to get me excited.  Once I got into Blogger, I found that it had all the same features as EduBlogs (although fewer templates).

There are several differences between traditional web pages and blogs.  Traditional web pages tend to contain static information, generally aimed at promoting products, services, or organizations and can be found by anyone searching the web.  Blogs are a means of publishing news to an audience that is determined by the author.  For example, this blog is targetted at my team mates and instructors in CEP 811.  Information can be updated as frequently as I like. My audience is free to comment on my blog entries pending my review.