Qualities and attributes of educational blogs (on the example of the USA)

This article defines a concept of an «educational blog». The subject of research is an educational blogosphere of the USA. Characteristic of different types of educational blogs is given in the order of the goal setting, as well as functions and attributes of the blogs. Blogging is being considered as one the modern ways of realizing full potential of the young people, who act as blog authors or the blog subscribers. The most needed in blogosphere are the actualization of the personal experience of the author or the team of the authors, high-quality self-presentation, the skills of original texts creation.