Welcome to Blogging

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. This term blogging will be part of your course work. A blog is a type of on-line journal written primarily by an individual who makes commentaries on events in the world or their own lives. A blog can have no audience or it can be popularly followed by numerous fans. It's been estimated that there are over 112 millions blogs in cyberspace.

In advanced two, you will be required to make entries based on course work, classroom experience or random topics assigned by your teachers. There are numerous benefits for second language learners to blog such as writing practice, on-line writing practice (there is a difference), critical thinking skills and computer literacy skills. Most importantly, blogging is an excellent opportunity for you to extend your definition of "reader" to a wider audience - your community.

You will be required to read and comment on your classmates' blogs from time to time. Each blog should be submitted for a certain deadline; otherwise you will lose marks. Blogging on blogger is not private,Moodle is private; therefore, it is only open to your fellow classmates and teachers.

So let's get started!

To get comfortable using blogger, we are going to play a little game. Write 3 sentences about yourself. 2 Statements are true and 1 statement is false. Post these statements and have your classmates guess which statement is the false one. Afterwards, you can post the false statement in another blog.

Here are my statements:

1. I am a very skilled skier.

2. I used to live in the Netherlands.

3. I never text message.