The first step is to email me to indicate your interest. Send the email to: prof dot arvan at gmail dot com.
Here are things to include in that email message.
a) The college or university you are attending or have attended.
b) Your areas of concentration in your studies. With this include other areas where you took some courses and had an interest in learning about that area as well.
c) Whether English is you first language or not. Students for whom English is a second language are welcome in the non-course, but I'd like to know about that ahead of time.
d) Closest city to where you are currently resident.
Those are the logistic bits of information. I'd also like to get something on why the non-course piqued your interest.
I will respond to your email with instructions for setting up your blog. As you can tell, I use Blogger. I'm most familiar with that and then can help you trouble shoot if you have some technical difficulties. But I'm not wedded to Blogger. If you prefer Wordpress or some other blogging environment that's fine. The key will be setting up your blog so your screen name is your alias and does not reveal your true identity.
In order to use Blogger, you need a functional gmail account. If your college or university use Google Apps for Education and your campus email is provided that way, you will need a different gmail account and need to be logged out of your campus account as well. In the past, some of my regular students have stumbled over this particular issue.
Once you've set up your blog and made an initial post (I will give you some suggestions for what that should be) you need to email me with the address of that. I will comment on your post and you should briefly respond to that. All of that is part of the set up process. Then you'll be ready to participate in the non-course.
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