Welcome to FNED!

  

Welcome to FNED 246  for the spring semester 2025!  

As a central tool of this class, you will create your own blog for all your written assignments and keep track of your thoughts about any of the issues we cover. You will not hand in written assignments to me each week; rather you will post them on your blog. In this sense, your blog is your assignment notebook that you will use as you read and prepare for class each week. You can also maintain this blog after this class is over for personal or professional purposes.
   

A blog is your very own, personal online journal. It is public, in that I and your classmates (across both classes) can read and comment on it, but it is your space and you can control most everything about it. (If you want to make it private so that *only* members of this class can read it, let's talk).  

 To start your own blog, you need to go to: www.blogger.com

 If you would like step-by-step guidance, click here for a How to Set Up Your Blog handout  you can follow as you work in Blogger. If you feel comfortable just following the steps in Blogger, you can do that, too. 

  In the end, make sure you have done the following: 

✅ Create your blog.
✅ Check to be sure your theme is SIMPLE or PICTURE WINDOW.
✅ Write your first post about yourself.
✅ Leave me a comment on this blog with your address. 

 As you work, just remember... you can't break it!  It is just a blog. 

Good luck!!

 JS :)