 A blog or a web blog is a wonderful metacognitive tool, you can use it with your learners to encourage them to reflect on their learning or to journal or evaluate. So if you come into a course with the eyes of an admin or an editing teacher, the first thing you want to do is add the blog menu block. That will make it very easy for you or your learners to add a new entry or view entries throughout a course or at a site level depending on the blog preferences. The other place you can blog is via your user profile, if you go to the blog tab, add a new entry and away you go. So we'll just put something in there like so. You can choose the availability, go into anyone on the site or draft yourself or perhaps publish to users at a course level. You can choose to use official tags and you can define your own tags as well. Not to forget, you can also attach a file, could be an image, a video, a document or some other piece of media that relates to your blog entry to share with your learners or your colleagues. So you save that and it's done. If we go home, we're going through the eyes of an admin. You can further granularize blog availability under the site admin block security, site policies and if you scroll your ways down to blog visibility, the default setting there is all site users can see all blog entries. You can in fact make your blogs readable to the world or you could lock it down somewhat to members of a given course or a group or people can only blog for their own viewing or else disable the system completely.