Getting started

The general idea is that you create your blog in your own way, but here are some guidelines:

• Choose a title that has something (more or less anything) to do with you and/ or the subject International English.
• Spend some time figuring out the layout of your blog.
• Remember relevant illustrations for every post. You are encouraged to take your own photos!
• If you find images online, make sure to use images that you are allowed to share (for example, images on flickr are marked with symbols that tell you whether you can use them or not).
• Give all your posts a title.
• You do not have to share personal information (that is not the point of this blog), but you should aim to give your blog its own "character".
• Try to be creative!

The blog you now create is supposed to be a place where you reflect on topics that have to do with International English. In other words, you can write about anything from the English language to nuclear weapons, the media, the environment, the challenges of multiculuralism, a novel you just read or a film that you would like to recommend - and so much more. You can choose to only do the blog tasks I give you here, but I also hope that some of you eventually will begin to write relevant posts on your own initiative as well.  Your blog will be assessed with one grade in the first term and one in the second, and this will count towards the written grade in English. Good luck blogging! (The photo is my own.)