How to Create a Blog

Here is what you need to do to create your own blog:

1. Start a Google account if you don't already have one. You can do this at gmail.com
2. Go to Blogger.com and set up a new account using your gmail address.
3. Choose a topic for your blog. It has to be on teaching a foreign/second language. For example, you could choose a topic such as Teaching Children to Read and Write Better in French, or Web Resources for Adult Learners of German, or Media Resources for the English Class, etc. Please do not choose a broad topic such as Teaching French. Make sure your blog identifies a specific audience and, if possible, specific skills or types of resources.
4. Choose a name (preferably short) and url for your blog that reflects your topic, and then provide a good description of your topic for your audience. This description should clearly describe the intended audience and contents of your blog. Please choose a topic that is relevant for your teaching context.
   
5. Follow the steps provided in Blogger.com to create your user profile (add a picture!), and select your choice of layout and settings. You are free to choose any kind of setting and gadgets for your blog. I only require the following:
   a) Allow comments from your classmates. To do this, choose Settings-Comments-Show-Registered Users-Embedded Below Posts.
   b) Select Show Posting Date. (In fact, what you need to do is *not* select Hide Posting Date. Blogger shows the posting date by default.)
   If you decide to continue your blog after the course finishes, you can easily remove these setting requirements by changing the setting options.
   
6. Post a comment here (like in my comment example below). Choose subscribe, then post a comment that includes the url of your blog. This way I'll be able to copy it and provide a link to our blog in Teach L2.