Web 2.0 for ESP

Another Web 2.0 Article

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:41:00 +0000

Friday's edition of Slate.com included an article questioning the democracy of web 2.0 tools like Wikipedia and Digg, while also recommending a few new resources worth checking out. It made me start thinking about how I have just a few students providing the bulk of the content on my class blog. Hope you find it interesting. You can read it here and you can listen to it here.

It was great to 'meet' all of you here over the past 1.5 months. I hope that we can keep the conversation going here or on the blog.

Final online session today (Sat 23.2) at 4pm GMT

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Looking at the Yahoo! Groups poll, it looks like 4-5:30pm GMT works best for our final online session. Hope to see/hear you then!

Interesting article on RSS and a possible innovation

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:38:00 +0000

I thought this article How to be a Better Browser on Slate.com about the drawbacks of information overload from RSS feeds and a possible improvement over current aggregators in the form of Persai (now in private beta testing) was very interesting. Debby recently asked me about how many blogs I have in my Bloglines. I sheepishly answered 355, but have to admit I just can't keep up. I know this idea of information overload has come up in our previous discussions!

I listened to the article on Slate's daily podcast (you can subscribe using an aggregator like Google Reader or with a podcatcher like iTunes).

Looking forward to our final online session this weekend.

Participant Wikis

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:36:00 +0000

Greetings everyone,

Just wanted to post the participant wikis here. I have added a section to the Web 2.0 for ESP wiki page called "participant wikis" [http://evo08esp.pbwiki.com/Participant+Wikis] . Click on the sidebar to find it (or go to Week Four and click on the link from there)http://evo08esp.pbwiki.com/Week%204.

If you don't see your wiki here, email me and I will add it to the wiki site.

Debby

http://vandyllm.pbwiki.com/

http://onlinelearning101.pbwiki.com/

http://ama07storytelling.pbwiki.com/

http://summer2007photos.pbwiki.com/

http://tic07.wikispaces.com/English+Class

http://uwasakeng9217.pbwiki.com

http://foundationone.pbwiki.com/

Using Google Analytics to Follow Wiki Hits

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:54:00 +0000

Hello everyone!

When we discussed blogs earlier, I mentioned that I have found in useful to try out some of the Web 2.0 tools we've been discussing for personal purposes before trying them out in class.

Last summer I did a lot of traveling in Finland's neighboring countries. I decided to try posting some of my photos for friends and family on a wiki, rather than via Ofoto (now Kodak EasyShare) as I've done in the past. You can check out my experiment here. This allowed me to learn how to imbed Picasa photo albums into my wiki.

This was also the first wiki were I installed Google Analytics, so that I could check up on how many people visited the site. In order to add this to your wiki, first create your wiki, then register with Google Analytics, then you will be given some html code to add to your wiki. Don't be scared off by this! If you're using PBWiki, it's quite easy. When you are editing a page, you can switch over to the html view from the easy point & click editor by clicking on the 'Source' icon near the 'Attach file' icon in the editing toolbar. Then you can insert the Google Analytics html code at the bottom of your front page. After you've done this, you can track the views of your wiki, complete with cool maps of where your hits come from.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have questions.

Wiki Comments

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Please let us know how the creation of your wikis is proceeding. Which wiki have you chosen to use? How are you using the wiki? What have you learned along the way?

Please share what you have learned about wikis because that is how we learn in the Web 2.0 environment.

Thanks for Your Participation - Recording of Week 3 Live Informal Group-Meeting Is Here!

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +0000

Hi! We'd like to thank you so much for your participation in our third live group-meeting that was carried out in the Webheads LearningTimes vOffice (Link), on Sunday. Debby, Jen, and I, Buthaina, would like to thank, especially Sylwia (Link), Mona, (Link) Mark (Link), Lorena (Link), and Hala (Link) for their great contribution to the live discussion through sharing ideas on ways to integrate RSS technology in their ESP classes. It was, indeed, such an informative and fun session.

For those of you who couldn't make it to our live meeting of Week 3, the recording of the live discussion can be found at Recordings wiki page.

After you finish viewing and listening to the recording, please share your ideas on ways you plan to use RSS technology for your ESP classes. You could do that either by adding your ideas to this wiki page, or through a post to your blog. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your collaboration and cooperation!

EVO 08 Web 2.0 for ESP Team
PS This draft entry was saved and will be published when connection is restored here at my end in the Gulf Region! Thank you for your patience. (Buth)

Welcome to Week 4: Wikis

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:03:00 +0000

Hello everyone!

The live meeting today was very interesting and the best attended we have had to date, despite some scheduling conflicts and some technical glitches. Hopefully the recording will be of a good enough quality and without too many breaks for those who weren't able to make it to listen to this week.

We're starting Week 4 of Web 2.0 for ESP EVO 2008 now and the topic for this week is wikis.

You can read more about this week on the Web 2.0 for ESP PBwiki.

Here is a brief summary of our agenda for the week:

1. Review the wiki comparison chart on the class wiki and decide which wiki best fits your needs as an ESP educator.
2. Skim some of the resources on the resource section of the class wiki to get an idea of how wikis have been used for other classes.
3. Read the article about Web 2.0 applications (including wikis) for educators: Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My! What Is a Faculty Member Supposed to Do? from Educause. (link on the class wiki)
4. Set up your wiki.
5. Practice adding photos, audio, and video to the wiki pages in the Sandbox on the class wiki.
6. We will also discuss using wikis for peer editing.
7. Share your wiki via Twitter, YahooGroups or the Web 2.0 for ESP blog (there will be a specific post that you can comment on with your wiki url).

Jen and Debby on behalf of the Web 2.0 for ESP team

Weekly LIVE session rescheduled

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:13:00 +0000

Hello everyone!

Apologies for the short notice with this announcement. Due to scheduling conflicts and technical problems, we've had to reschedule today's/tonight's live session for tomorrow Sunday February 3rd at 8pm GMT.

Hope to see/hear you then!

URGENT: Do not open email from Buth about Zorpia

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:07:00 +0000

Greetings all,

Please do NOT open a message from Buth about a new tool called Zorpia.

It is a virus and will infect your computer and send out invitation messages to everyone in your address book.

Debby

If You Are Using Moodle...Read this!

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:08:00 +0000

Results of the poll created earlier, by Debby in our YG, showed that some of you are interested in learning more about Moolde!

Harold Jarche has blogged some interesting informative comments about the book, Moodle Teaching Techniques, by William Rice, stating that: "This is a good guidebook for anyone developing online courses with Moodle. The introduction covers some basic instructional techniques and then the book gets right into the “how-to’s” of course building."

One thing I really liked was Harold's bottom line about the book and his comment on Rice's recommendations on how wikis, forums and blogs should be used. Thanks, Harold!

Hope this helps, folks

A Digi-Drama About Fear 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:10:00 +0000

The video, above was found through a post,
by Barbara Sawhill on her LanguageLabUnleashed.

Enjoy!

Audacity and Online Audio

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:46:00 +0000

Hello all! Yesterday during the online session, Mike mentioned a tool called Audacity. He said he was starting to use authentic audio texts from the web with his students. I mentioned that that's where I started in terms of getting more curious about the tools the web could offer me as a teacher back in 2004. Everyone takes a different path in terms of developing his/her own technology repertoire, but the greatest thing is when we share the tools that work with us with other teachers so that everyone doesn't have to reinvent the wheel or to rediscover fire, in this case!

Audacity is a free program (it requires that you have the right to download software onto your computer) where you or your students can record your/their own voice(s) and/or where you can record any audio that you can hear when you are online and turn it into an MP3 file. The advantage of this is that there is a great deal of audio available online, but much is it is 'streamed' meaning that you cannot directly download the file, so in order to use this audio in an unwired classroom or in a classroom with an unpredictable or slow internet connection, you need to be able to make the audio portable. Once you have created an MP3 with Audacity, you can play it directly from your computer, burn it onto a cd if your computer has a cd burner, transfer it to a memory stick or disk, or put it on your MP3 player or iPod.

I have attached a tutorial to our wiki (here on the tutorials page) about how to get started with Audacity. Don't hesitate to contact Debby or me if you have any questions about using it (we created the tutorial together last autumn).

For those of you who do not have the rights to download software onto your machine, I know that it's possible to use podOmatic and OdeoStudio to record your voice and save it as an MP3 file. Does anyone have experience using these tools for capturing streaming audio? These two tools are great for creating podcasts (basically an audio blog) that might be interesting for some of you to explore in the future.

One more thing... Mike said yesterday that he had enjoyed using VOA (Voice of America) 'Special English' reports with students in the past. It seems that this service still exists here.

Recording of Week 2 Live Informal Group-Meetting & Thanks for Your Participation

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:08:00 +0000

Hi all,

This post is to thank, Anna, Toni, Janet, Moira, Jen, and our special guest, Michael Ivy for their participation in our second live group-meeting of week 2. The meeting went very well and the discussion was so fruitful with many new tips and ideas on blogs and blogging for ESP classes.

Michael Ivy shared a link to his ESL/EFL blog for EFL learners in Rome. He talked to us about some the techniques he uses through his blog to invite for more interaction from his students. He also talked about how easy and quickly it is now for anybody to add widgets to a blogger blog. He showed an example of how to install the widget of Tag-Board into your blog; indeed, doing that was a breeze! Finally, Michael invited us all to post comments to his ESL/EFL blog! Michael also talked about some different types of blogs, such as personal and just for hobbies and fun blogs, like the bicycle blog, Rural Rides in Central Lazio, which he's been maintaining!

Later, Jen did an interesting short presentation on blogger vs wordpress blogs! She highlighted important features available at both platforms, in addition to advantages an backwards of each. She then talked to us about tags and how they can be used to help in the assessment process in any online course that uses a blog as its main LMS. You could learn more about this technique and other relevant stories through Jen's latest post to this blog.

For those of you who couldn't make it to the second live informal group-meeting, please check out the link to the recording of the event provided on our Recordings wiki page.

Thanks, again for your participation, and we look forward to meeting you all live online next week!

All the best :)

Second Live Group-Meeting in Webheads vOffive at Learningtimes

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:08:00 +0000

Hi all,

This is a reminder to let you know that our second weekly live group-meeting
is going to be held in the Webheads vOffice at Learningtimes, later
today/tonight at 20:00-21:00 GMT. This time was voted for by the
majority of you, according to the results of the poll that was closed
on Jan 25 at 24:15 GMT, (20:00 - 21:00 GMT, 7 votes, 25.93%). Please
see complete poll results at the bottom of this post.

Please note, your participation is very important as we are going to
discuss our own experience with blogs and blogging for our current or
future ESP classes. Also, some guest bloggers may join our live
session to talk a bit about their blogging experience and answer some
of your questions.

The live online group-meetings are a good opportunity, especially for
those of you who are very busy and need to catch up with some
materials and weekly activities already covered and completed.

Please bring all your questions, ideas, thoughts and comments on Week
2 with you to the live session. Also, if you'd like to add other
relevant points or matters to the agenda of today's live discussion,
please sent them here to this list so that we can add them.

If it's your first time to join us at a live session, please check out the Tutorials wiki page to learn more about how to access the Webheads vOffice.

Looking forward to meeting you all live online, soon :)

PS Poll CHOICES AND RESULTS

- 13:00 - 14:00 GMT, 5 votes, 18.52%
- 14:00 - 15:00 GMT, 6 votes, 22.22%
- 15:00 - 16:00 GMT, 5 votes, 18.52%
- 19:00 - 20:00 GMT, 4 votes, 14.81%
- 20:00 - 21:00 GMT, 7 votes, 25.93%

Blogger versus WordPress, tagging blog posts, and another posting tip

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:31:00 +0000

I thought that I would write a brief post here comparing Blogger and WordPress, two blog platforms I have some experience with. Up front, I must explain that I've been using Blogger for 1.5 years now and have just started to use WordPress. I surfed around this afternoon in search of a good article on this topic, but most of what I found was a bit dated and both services are constantly updating their offerings. Of course, some of you may have had experience with other services such as TypePad or Edublogs. If so, perhaps we can find time to discuss this during our live session today or at a further date here (via comments on this post) or within our Yahoo! group.

Many people I informally asked said that they switched from Blogger to WordPress last year while Blogger underwent some major changes and forced users to adopt a beta version during this transition. This transition period has since ended. From my experience, I think that Blogger is easier to get up and running for those with more limited technical experience. Both allow you to choose from numerous templates, but personalizing the banner at the top of the page with your own photograph or image has been easier for me with WordPress. WordPress also allows you to have multiple pages, with one page consisting of the blog portion. While these additional pages don't allow as much storage and aren't quite as easy as setting up a wiki, this might be something to bear in mind if you would like to have resource pages, etc. attached to your blog. WordPress also allows you to upload documents, where as on Blogger you can only link to documents you have uploaded elsewhere. For the more technology adept, with WordPress blogs it is possible to host your blog on your own server or to embed your WordPress blog within another page. I hope this might be helpful and that you all can add to this fledgling list of pros and cons of each service.

One thing I like about blogs...

One thing that I find tremendously useful with blogs that one can't do with most message boards, Yahoo! groups, or discussion areas is the tagging or labeling feature. This means that you can assign multiple key words to each post and then readers can later view all posts with this particular tag without scrolling through the entire blog archive. I took an online (quilting) course conducted via blog last year and this was a very useful feature for us. When we (the students) posted, we were required to tag each of our messages with at least two tags: our name (which I imagine would make assessment easier) and the assignment our post pertained to. We had another tag for general questions and another for resources we wanted to recommend to each other. I am going to follow the same procedures with the course involving a blog for business students that I'm conducting this semester.

Another posting tip for those of you new to Blogger...

I wanted to backdate this post so that Buth's post about tonight's live session would still be at the top of the page. I thought I'd share a little information about how to do that for those of you new to Blogger. I find this useful when I start a draft and come back to it later. If you save a post as a draft and then come back to it later, the default settings are that the post will be time/date stamped when you started the draft, not when you actually post. In Blogger, you can click below the box where you have entered your text (or images, etc.) on the blue link labeled 'Post Options' (to the left of 'Labels for this post:' where you can enter your tags for the post). Here you can change the time and date associated with your post. You can also choose whether to allow comments and backlinks here, as well. I hope this might be helpful to someone!

Web 2.0 and Its Business Implications

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:34:00 +0000

Even in hyper-wired (or wireless) Finland, I'm surprised sometimes by my students' unfamiliarity with some of the web 2.0 tools we are discussing in this EVO session. The majority of my students study business here at the University of Vaasa and I use a lot of web 1.0 tools with them already, including radio segments downloaded as podcasts (ok, this is getting into 2.0) or streamed live into the classroom as listening texts. Two pieces I came across recently addressed the issue of web 2.0 from a business perspective. I thought I'd pass them on here. As I integrate web 2.0 tools into my classroom, I find it useful to discuss web 2.0 more generally with my students in terms of their area of studies.

Who is Grady Harp?: Amazon's Top Reviewers and the Fate of the Literary Amateur
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008, at 7:33 AM ET
Slate is a daily online magazine (an ezine), which also has a daily podcast of one story being read aloud.

Second Life's Economy Slows Down, Too
aired Tuesday January 22, 2008
Marketplace is a daily half-hour business news radio program produced by Public Radio International in Los Angeles. It can be heard online, downloaded, and/or subscribed to as a podcast. Most segments have a full transcript available on the website.

For those of you who are brand new to blogging, do you see that I've inserted links into the text of my post here? Why don't you give that a try. Linking to other blogs and online resources is an important aspect of blogging as mentioned in one of this week's readings. In blogger, you can insert a link by highlighting the text you'd like the link to hide behind and then clicking on the small icon above (near the bold, italics, etc. icons) that looks like a small globe with a chain link above it. Don't hesitate to ask if you have questions!

Using Elluminate Live for Your Blended Classes!

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:01:00 +0000

This entry made particularly to answer a question, by Lori in New York, on using the vRoom by Elluminate live! Lori and everyone interested, I did use the virtual room by Elluminate for one of my ESP, Business English blended classes. I found it very helpful as it allows high quality of participation through audio, video, and text. It also has breakout rooms that made group-activities so easy to do online. Also, allowing power point files to be uploaded helped me prepare lessons on the fly. The Whiteboard tools are so useful and effective in terms of participation or adding information and questions quickly. So, my experience using Elluminate was very successful.

Hope this is helpful, Lori! Please let me know if you have other questions about the Elluminate vRoom.

All the best :)

The Great Divide

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:56:00 +0000

I read Hala's post today and felt that I had to move it up into the main posts because I think she touches on something that is important for all of us to think about no matter where we live and work.

Hala's post is between the *** marks. Let us know what you think and your experience with this problem. What can we do to help our students who don't have the same access to computers and the internet as others? Scroll to the bottom of this message and click on comments to tell us your experiences.

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hi i think this is my fourth comment today i is realllly great. I have different concerns from lori in introducing blogs in my esp teachings. khartoum univeristy is public univerity all levels of students are accepted. some of them are from conflict zones they cannot afford the luxury of even having three meals per day and some are so rich they drive their 2008 model cars. I feel introducing technology to the class can certainly leave some out. i feel that the poorer students are the ones who really need to know about technology some of them are really cleaver and so keen to learn as they feel that this is their chance to do something in their lives.
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Remember to Read the Comments

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:00 +0000

We are getting comments on the blog now, so remember to read the comments because the co-moderators have started responding in the comments section below each initial posting.

There might be information there you are interested in reading.

For example, if you want to add photos, audio, or video to your own blogs, you probably want to look at the Help of Blogger.

After creating your blog and logging in, click on customize in top left corner. You will then see the help button. Click on that, then click on the help center icon. Scroll down until you see the Multimedia section.

Recording of Vance Stevens' on Blogging & Tagging for ESP/EAP

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:18:00 +0000

Hi all,

We'd like to thank our guest speaker for this week 2, Vance Stevens for the useful information on blogging, tagging, and using technorati, which he shared with us at the live presentation, on Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008. We'd also like to thank our group members, Sylwia, Mark, Toni, and Janet for their participation in this session.

We're sorry that other participants couldn't make it to the live session this time and hope they'd be able to join us in other future live meetings.

For your convenience, the recording of the presentation, created courtesy of LearningTimes.org support team, can be found at Recordings page on our wiki.

Kindest regards,
Buth,
for the evo 08 Web 2.0 for ESP team

Participants' Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:58:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

Post the links to your blogs here. We would like to see what you create.

Take a look at the links section on the right-hand side of the page for direct links to your colleagues' blogs.

Time and Web 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:27:00 +0000

New York Lori posted the following to Buth's first entry on the blog. Great post, Lori.

My response is below her entry. Please feel free to add your own concerns and comments.

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My main concern about using Web 2.0 technology for my English classes is the time factor. I'm worried that I'll be "on call" to my students 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. I envision having to check blogs, emails, podcasts, wikis every single day of the week in order to give prompt feedback to my students. I think of all the writing assignments that my students send to me for reading and editing via email. All of the above is in addition to the daily research, planning, and preparation time that I want to do in order to conduct my dynamic and productive English learning classes.

In the good old days, teachers taught class, gave homework/project assignments, and didn't have any contact with the students until the next class. I think all of these Web 2.0 tools are incredible and I can't wait to start utilizing them in my classes. But at the same time, I panic thinking that I'll never have any downtime between classes. I'm also not sure I'm comfortable that students have 24/7 access to me.
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That was also my primary concern with I started using Web 2.0 tools. I can remember being totally frustrated when we had an online teaching expert tell us that he set up virtual office hours on Sunday afternoons. Since I am in the U.S., I thought, that is my weekend, I need those hours free!

What I have learned though is that I don't spend more time online than I do with face-to-face classes and office hours. Of course, I type very quickly and this helps me, but I have learned to tell students not to expect instant turnaround (48 hours is fine). I also tell them I don't respond on weekends (though I admit I do sometimes if the question is easy). I choose at most two tools per class or there is too much to check. Unless the assignment includes review of drafts by me, I tell students I will only look at small sections of their essays--not the entire thing. Wikis are great tools for peer editing. We will discuss how that works during Week 4.

I will admit that it takes more time at first, especially as you learn to work with the tools and decide what you want to do with them. However, once you have spent time with them and know what works for you and your students, it can be much faster than preparing for a traditional class.

Remember when you first started teaching and it took ages to get ready for class. Learning to use Web 2.0 is a little similar to that. However, as teachers, we have to keep up with the times and Web 2.0 is not going to disappear. Take a deep breath, remember the little engine that could(I think I can, I think I can) and move on up the hill.

For those of you unfamiliar with the little engine story from the U.S., take a look at the wikipedia entry below. Although the entry is not entirely positive about the story, what I remember about it from my long ago childhood is that if we just keep trying, we will succeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Engine_That_Could

Live Session with Vance Stevens, on Blogging & Tagging for ESP/EAP Class, Tue, Jan 22 at 12:00 - 13:00 UTC /GMT

noreply@blogger.com (Buthaina Alothman) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:27:00 +0000

For more information about this event please go to Guest Speakers wiki page!

Looking forward to meeting most of the participants of the EVO 08 Web 2.0 for ESP!

Best!

Commenting Instructions

noreply@blogger.com (Debby) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:58:00 +0000

This week we want you to post your questions and comments on the blog. To do that, you will need to follow the steps below. I fyou are a blogger, this will be easy. If you are not, let us know if you have problems.

General Information:

Blogging is not a live, synchronous event. It is asynchronous, just like email. The difference is that the “threads” or topics of discussion are connected. This is great for following ideas and comments on those ideas for online courses and as supplements to face-to-face classes.

If you have ever used a discussion forum in a course, blogging is very similar to that. A discussion forum is a main posting with comments, using on a particular question if you are using the forum for classroom activities. I will post an example on the blog this week.

Steps for Posting:

Create a google or gmail account (or sign in using your google or gmail account if you already have one. You can sign in with your google or gmail user name or the full address. For example, my gmail user name is dleetn, or I can sign in with the full gmail address of dleetn@gmail.com. The password is the same for your google/gmail account.
To create a google account (no new email account, but access to google applications and this is a very good thing). Go to https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount and click on “create an account now” under the sign in box on the right. This works just like setting up a new email account. You will need a user name and password that you create.
If you want a gmail account, go to https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fnsr%3D1%26ui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2 and click on Sign Up for Gmail under the sign in box on the right. Again, just follow the instructions. You will need a user name and password.
Once you have a google or gmail account, you can comment on any of the posts on the blog. To comment, scroll to the end of the entry you want to comment on, and click on 0, comments. The number will change depending upon how many people have already commented.
A new screen will open and you will type in your comments in the box on the right. You will need to prove to Blogger that you are a human by typing the secret code in the box. Below that sign in using your google or gmail account. Then you can preview before you post or publish directly to the blog site using the Preview and Publish Comment buttons.

We look forward to your comments.

Debby