Class Activity March 11

Developing your own blog

Now that you’ve started exploring the blogosphere and seen other people’s blogs, it’s time for you to become a blogger yourself and develop your own blog. In their comments on blogs, two students last year made the following comments: Francesca said “it is like a work of art: it expresses your personality" and Tania commented, bloggers "want to express their personal opinions and catch other readers' attention." This week it’s time for you to express your creativity and personality, to find your own style, and to figure out how to catch other bloggers' attention.

Task: Log on to blogger and rather than clicking on our course blog, develop your own. You have the freedom to do whatever you want. Choose a style, change the colors, add some links and some images or pictures, etc. Please include: 1 - a welcome message, 2 – a post in which you critically reflect on your first experience with blogging (e.g. what are your impressions) and if and in what way you think it can influence your language learning (e.g. reading colloquial English).

Write a comment back to this post in which you share the url of your new blog with the rest of us.

A student from last year's course wanted me to share this email with you that she wrote to me last week: "you know, I'm still blogging, even if without your tasks it is a bit difficult to write every week. The american Blogger friend camu i Italy once more, and that was an occasion to meet another blogger, a professor at the University in Genova. Tell your students that there are many interesting person you can meet with this kind of tools!"

Let's get to work!

Sarah

N.B. If you weren't in class, then you need to do this on your own. If you're having difficulties, check out this tutorial on YouTube. If you type in the words "blogger tutorial" in YouTube you can find other tutorials on how to do various things with blogger.