Welcome!

*Updated*Welcome to ENGL 1101. We will be using Blogger throughout the semester as a place to reflect on our work and communicate with each other. Please set up your own Blogger Blog using the following guidelines:

• Keep in mind that Blogger works best w/ Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox; it doesn't much like Internet Explorer.
• Click on "Create Blog" at the top right of this page, and create a Google Account (if you don't already have one). Typically Blogger doesn't accept my students' UNCC email addresses, so you'll probably have to use a personal e-mail address here. You'll really only need your e-mail address to sign in; I've never received e-mails from Blogger or Google.
• As you're creating your account, please make sure your display name contains some version of your real name so that your classmates and I can identify you easily.
• Once you've made an account, you should be taken to your "Dashboard," the "home base" for Blogger. From here, you'll want to create ONE blog that you will use for the semester - click on "New Blog." Please note that once you have a Blogger account, you'll be able to make as many blogs as you want to, but you will create ONE blog for use in this class. This blog's title should be pertinent to ENGL 1101 and/or UTOP.
• You may design your blog however you'd like to. Have fun with it.
• Once you've created your blog for this class, make sure to "follow" your own blog. I know this sounds silly, but if you're not a follower of your own blog, it won't show up on your profile. Blogger might have rectified this issue since last semester - we'll figure it out. 
• Also, you'll need to "follow" my page AND your peer group members' pages. To follow a blog, you'll have to paste the URL into the designated spot on your dashboard. When viewing somebody's page, click on, copy their URL, then click on "dashboard." From there, "Add" and copy the URL into the box.
• Make sure to paste the URL of your blog into Moodle (I showed you this in class on Friday)
• From your Dashboard, whenever you want to write a new post, you'll click on the orange "Create a New Post" button. It's that easy. (: I will post directions for each Blog Post assignment on this very page. Here we go!