Start of Pre-sessional Month 2

Dear Yellow/Orange classes,

Well done for finding the blog. Please try to set up your own blog (using the instructions on p8 of the booklet) or here below. Then I can take a look at the self-study you are doing and give you suggestions, and other students from the class can also take a look. I'll also use this space to post any useful information from what we've covered in class - please check it regularly through the course.

To set up a blog:

Creating a self-study blog
Creating a blog is really, really easy.You can either go to blogger.com and just follow the instructions there, or if you want, you can first watch this little video on youtube (it's only 2 minutes long) which gives extra assistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4gXHkejMoAs you can see, creating a blog takes only a minute on blogger.com, and can easily post (i.e. write) stuff on your blog. Here's another video about how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdqXLzvg-kM).Once your blog is ready, you can send your tutor your blog address. You can also put links to all your classmates' blogs on your blog. Here's a video about how to do that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5cMEOl9Js.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please make sure you turn off the automatic word-verification tool for comments on your blog. You can find out how to do this here (http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en-ch&answer=42520). Otherwise, anytime you or someone else wants to leave a comment on a blog, you'd have to type in a long list of letters and numbers which can be very frustrating!

Hope this helps to get you blogging!