When I left the classroom in 2012, I didn't anticipate that I would spend so much time writing resources, training teachers, blogging and so on. There was no real plan, apart from setting up frenchteacher.net with the hope of getting a few hundred subscribers. I've been blogging for over 15 years now, usually several times a month, so it's no wonder the number of page views has built up over time. Typically I get around 1000 hits a days either to recent posts or very often to older posts, some of which surprise me.
So the stats page of my Blogger blog (by Google) currently shows over 4 million page views. This doesn't mean reads, of course! In these days of podcasts and substacks it may be worth reminding people that Blogger is still a free and effective way of sharing information and reflections. (To remind you, I put together many of my posts, with much added material, in my two volumes of Thinking About Language Teaching. Plug over.)
If you want to write your own blog, just head over to Blogger, get a Google email address, choose a template and off you go. It's super easy and costs nothing. According to Le Chat Mistral AI, other platforms which offer free options include Wordpress, Weebly, Wix, Substack, Write.as, Medium and Tumblr. Some carry ads.
I fully intend to continue blogging when the fancy takes me. Although I occasionally listen to language teacher podcasts - and have conrtributed to a few - my own preference is for written material which I can read quickly.
There are many other bloggers out there. The best of the bunch, in my vew, is Gianfranco Conti's. Gianfranco and I began our writing partnership after reading each other's blog. But for a list of other recommended language teacher blogs see here.
You may be curious to know which of my posts are the most viewed. My analytics page gives me information on this sort of thing, so at the moment, here are the posts which were most viewed in the last day:
And this is where readers come from at the moment:
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