What is a blog?

You probably think the word ‘blog’ sounds outdated, something that’s gone out of fashion or that nobody uses anymore. However, they offer an interesting introduction to how platforms for uploading, storing and sharing content work. In fact, platforms such as WordPress remain the most widely used for creating websites around the world. Let’s start with the dictionary definition:

blog, online journal where an individual, group, or corporation presents a record of activities, thoughts, or beliefs. Some blogs operate mainly as news filters, collecting various online sources and adding short comments and Internet links. Other blogs concentrate on presenting original material. In addition, many blogs provide a forum to allow visitors to leave comments and interact with the publisher. “To blog” is the act of composing material for a blog. Materials are largely written, but pictures, audio, and videos are important elements of many blogs. The “blogosphere” is the online universe of blogs.

Source: Brittanica

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Summarizing:

Blogs are useful to:

• Describe lessons, tasks, topics, assignments, etc.
• Cooperate and collaborate.
• Storage and deliver homework. 
• Comment on others posts (feedback).

What is a portfolio?

A portfolio is a collection of work done over a certain period of time, (during the semester or the school year, for example).

It favours the dissemination of work (homework), research and projects, while at the same time allowing students to have a planned and orderly record of their progress.