SFL Bloggers

Although we're still waiting for a six more members to accept invitations, we thought we would get the ball rolling for the first blogspace event--a brainstorming activity:

Remember, you can only do the following activity if you have accepted the invitation to become a contributor to this blog.

• What do you already know in general about blogs and blogging?
• What questions in general do you have in your mind that you'd like answers for?
  Note: We'll get to more specifics about EFL and blogs in our second event, for now, we'd like you just to share what you know about blogs and blogging in general, and questions in your mind that you'd like to find answers for.
  

Now that you are contributors to this blog, you can sign in at Blogger (click the Blogger logo at the top left of the window) with the username and password your created for your account.

1. When you sign in, you will see your 'dashboard' (AmE for 'control panel') and blogs that you can contribute to. (You'll see that you can create as many blogs as you want...but we'll get to that in our third blog event...but if you're curious like Ozan and Erkan, no harm in trying it out now. :))
2. So, open up the SFLBloggers blog in your dashboard, and under the POSTING tab you'll see three options: "Create, Edit, and Status". Choose "Create" and then put in the title: BE1a: Brainstorming about Blogs.
3. In the text box, write what you already know, and follow this with questions you have about blogs and blogging in general.
4. When you're happy with what you've written, click PUBLISH. (If you've written something and want a bit more time to think, you can click DRAFT. This saves it for you to edit and publish later. However, you can edit a post that you published at any time in the future, or even delete it if you want.)
5. Remember, don't get specific about EFL right now, just think about blogs and blogging in general terms.
   Tip: Sometimes the Internet crashes in the publishing stage. You can lose everything you have written (as Steve's students discovered much to their--and his--chagrin.) So, we recommend that you place your cursor in the text area of what you've written, copy (Use CTRL+A to select everthing, then CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard) before you press the publish button. If there is a crash, you still have your work in clipboard which you can paste and save, or return to the comment window, paste, and try again.
   

When you're done, have a look at what your colleagues have posted.

DEADLINE:

Friday, 18th Februrary, 08.00. We'll announce the follow-up activity for the brainstorming at that time.

Next week we'll start our second blog event, where we will look at how two teachers use blogs with their EFL classes.

Thanks!