First Blog Entry

Complete before leaving for the Dominican Republic:

Write between 150-200 words (in English or Spanish) about what you anticipate for your study abroad experience. Include some of the following themes: what will Santo Domingo be like, what will be hard for you, what will your host family experience be like, will you have a hard time learning the language, what is your biggest fear, what are you most excited about, what you hope to gain from the experience, etc.

Getting Started

Getting Started

During your time in Santo Domingo you will be keeping a blog of your experiences, progress, activities and pictures.  We will use blogspot.com (same as blogger.com) for our blogs.  If you don’t already have a blog you will need to create one.  If you already have a blog on blogspot, you can use your same login, but you will need to create an additional blog for the DR Program (you can still use the other one for personal blogging).

How to create your Blogspot

1.       Steps to setting up your blog for the DR Program

Open www.blogspot.com and click “Get Started”

Fill in the information required and click “Continue”

2.       Give your blog a title, for example “Ana Maria y Las playas del caribe”  (this can be changed later)

Create a blog address  – http:// amariaoviedo.blogspot.com  (You can use any available name for your blog as long as it is appropriate.)  (**You CAN’T change the address after you have set it**)

3.       Choose a template that you like.  (You can change this later.)

4.       Now you are ready to write your first entry.  You need to complete and publish your entry before you leave for Dominican Republic.  (Please note that you can save your entry as a draft to be able to work on it later.)

5.       Sharing your blog – You need to share your blog’s URL with the group.  Go to Canvas and post the address to your blog under the appropriate Discussion.  Please check to make sure it is the correct URL and that it links correctly to your blog.