What Services can Children use to Publish Online?

Children can publish content to the Internet in numerous ways.

Web Pages

• Many children learn the basics of creating web pages (pages of information which collectively form websites on the World Wide Web) as early as primary school.
• Children can then take these skills and develop their own personal websites.
• Content which children publish can include movies, text, pictures and sound.

Newsgroups / Forums

• These are places on the Internet where people join online discussions.
• Once registered as a member of the group, messages can be posted which relate to the topic. These messages are recorded on the site and can be read by anyone searching on the Internet.
• The majority of content published in newsgroups and forums is text and pictures.

Blogs (Web Logs)

• Blogs are online diaries that are created publicly for people to view.
• Blogs are a form of communication on the Internet which is very popular with children aged 13-19 and young adults aged 20-29.
• Text is usually published in blogs.