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The document discusses how blogs can be used as an easy and effective educational tool with students and teachers. Blogs allow for sharing of content, interaction between teachers and students, and providing extra materials. While blogs require some work from teachers, they provide many benefits such as enhancing learning, improving language skills, and giving students opportunities to be creative. The document recommends starting with one or two classes and a clear purpose in order to see positive results from educational blogging.
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- 1. Blogs How toget the best results with the least effort
- 2. A couple ofassumptions Learning technologies are slowly and irrevocably changing the way students learn Technologies are often unavailable for profitable use at school, whether for lack of equipment or for teacher reluctance
- 3. How to bridgethe gap? Grabbing things by the horns Starting soft That is, trying the easiest tools first, in order to get the best results with the least effort. BLOGS
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- 7. Why blogs? Areextremely easy to implement Even the least savvy person can create one in a few minutes Plenty of free available blog service providers Can be updated at home both by teachers and students Are powerful tools to share original content or embed existing Internet resources. Allow teachers and students to interact on a different and more equal basis
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- 10. Blogs for studentsAlso known as Tutor blogs, can be used to Provide extra material Quickly link to Internet resources Make the most of multimedia Share references Sum up main ideas about topics Explore themes Offer suggestions Assign tasks and activities
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- 12. Blogs by studentsWhat for Collecting students’ production Recording experiences Sharing …. (ideas documents, pictures etc.)
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- 14. Blogs for andby students Also called class blogs Shared space to which both teacher and students can contribute Sort of classroom extension Teacher can provide prompts and/or instructions Students contribute with their own production
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- 16. Blogs for projectsBlogs are ideal spaces for developing projects, especially projects carried out between classes in different countries
- 17. Pros Advantagesare numerous. In fact blogs can be used even in an extremely technologically poor environment provide a basic approach to technology resources help widen scope enhance variety be used as storage devices for reusable materials provide audience for students’ production offer visibility help improve language skills, particularly reading and writing (but alslo listening)
- 18. Cons There mightbe a few drawbacks Creating and updating blogs means extra work for the teacher Correction becomes an issue Comments – or the lack of – might create problems Privacy IS an issue Interaction might be difficult to get started and kept going so you might need a different kind of tool facebook
- 19. A few tips Start soft: choose the type of blog which best suits your needs and experimente with one or a couple of classes Find a special reason for starting a blog and try students’ reaction Do not expect students to be over-enthusiast Remember: it’s you who have to keep things going
- 20. Conclusions Though blogsare by no means the “cure it all” tool they might prove useful to Get familiar with technology Start using technology based resources Try different teaching approaches Provide scope for students’ activities Get access to authentic material …… . (name your own)
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- 22. References Afew useful resources if you wish to know more on the matter Campbell AP 'Weblogs for use with ESL classes' http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html Downes, S., Educational Blogging, http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/EducationalBlogging/40493 Stanley, G., Blog-EFL, http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/ Stanley, G., blog for ELT, http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/blogging-elt Ciaffaroni, M.T. Blogs, http://www.slideshare.net/ciaffaroni