Following Blogs Which Interest You

Hopefully by the time you read this post (specifically, my students), you will have become comfortable with writing your own blog posts, but what is the fun of blogging if all you ever do is write your own posts?  Part of the fun of blogging is learning about what interests you.  One way to do that is to visit Feedly.com, set up an account, and begin exploring what blog options there are out there.  Are you interested in baseball?  Great, find a blog which focuses on baseball.  Are you interested in cooking, horses, or books? Search for blogs on those topics, start learning, and, ideally, start making your own contributions to those blogs through your comments and questions.

If you run into any problems, let me know because I want your blogging experience to be as user-friendly as possible.

NOTE:  Keep in mind that as you become more and more active as a blogger, you need to protect yourself.  Do not ever include any of your personal information (your name, username, password, e-mail address, home address, phone number, school name, city, country, etc.) in any of your blog posts.  If you ever find inappropriate content on someone else's blog or if someone leaves you an inappropriate comment, report it to your teacher immediately.  Also keep in mind that you are responsible for making posts which include appropriate language; even though you are, in a sense, anonymous online, you are still responsible for the content you post.