Another try at education blogging

The English Corner is still moving along. Classes have just started in China, and I hope to see a lot of activity on the site. (I've created another blog for an English-language program in China, but it's essentially inactive.)

I've also created blogs for all my classes at Capilano College, but they've become routine. I don't expect to see the students suddenly start interacting on them.

But I'm also trying something new: Write a Novel is an experiment in open courseware, a stand-alone guide to fiction writing.

It's deliberately non-interactive: Visitors can comment if they wish, but I'm not going to provide further advice or critiques of their own writing. To get anything out of the site, the visitors will have to be self-propelled. We'll see how it goes.

In addition, I've started a blog for students and teachers of English as a foreign language. Shoptalk is a place for us to write about English usage, teaching techniques, and anything else that might increase the fun of using the language.