Before proceeding with this first blog post, we expect you to consider your privacy preferences carefully and that you have considered the following options:

  1. Do you want to be online vs. offline?   online
  2. Do you want to use your name (or part thereof) vs. a pseudonym (e.g., West Coast Teacher)?  My name
  3. Do you want to have your blog public vs. private? (Note, you can set individual blog posts private or password protected or have an entire blog set to private)  Public
  4. Have you considered whether you are posting within or outside of Canada? This blog on opened.ca is hosted within Canada. That said, any public blog posts can have its content aggregated/curated onto social networks outside of Canada.   within Canada

Please also review the resources from our course website for getting started with blogging: