First Post

This post is directed to my students. If you happened upon this post and you aren't one of my students, there is absolutely no need for you to follow the instructions that I give below. In point of fact, I'd rather you didn't follow the instructions.

Instructions

Your first task is to create a pseudo-anonymous blog.

Please do not reveal your account name to your classmates for the time being. Do reveal them to me. I'll need to know them in order to determine your grades.

I did this by creating a gmail account. I used my real name there although my email address does not include my real name. You should do that too. Once you've got your email account working, set up your pseudo-anonymous blog. You can do this by going to blogger (under "more") in the gmail menu.

When you first start up blogger, choose to set up your blogger account to use a name other than your real name.

For now, it is fine to choose "simple" for your template. Don't bother setting up adsense or any of the other things that go with setting up a blog. We'll get to those sorts of things later.

The first thing that I want you to do is to write a post. Your post can be quite brief. You might simply write something like "Hello World". Once you've got a post, let me know.