Learning to blog in English and blogging to learn English: Basically, that's what this blog and writing studio are about. Your writing course starts about here, with reading. Writing will start as soon as you have a blog. The quicker you start a blog, the better.
Both inside and outside of class, we will use the Internet to communicate: For instance, a) this Writing Studio Blog, b) the Writing Studio Wiki, c) the WinK Homepage, and d) you own blog will be our bases of communication about your language learning and progress through this writing course.
The Gmail Signup and Blogger startup guide (there's a link in the sidebar, to the right) shows you how to create a Gmail account and get a blog of your own started. As always, please read and follow all of the instructions carefully.
If you've got both a Gmail account and a Blogger blog started already, great! You can use your blog to introduce yourself to your classmates and me (please add the label "introductions" when you do). However, please read on; there's more.
Within a few days of our first class meeting (before is fine), I suggest that you explore all of the other Links in the Writing Studio Blog sidebar, including:
- the Weblogging in Kumamoto (WinK) Homepage,
- the Writing Studio Wiki, and
- the bit "About Me" in the sidebar (right).
If there are more than zero (0) comments from your classmates already; please read theirs first, and then write something new and different. Here are a few topic tips for you to choose from:
- Trouble you have had, if any, getting a Gmail account or Blogger blog started;
- Impression of what you find on the Wink Homepage or Writing Studio Wiki;
- Pertinent (not too personal) question about me and this writing course; or
- Suggestion of a blog topic that is of interest to you and your peers.
Cheers, PB
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