Dear Teachers & PD Coordinators,
Fernette and Brock Eide’s research found that blogs can:
- Promote critical and analytical thinking
- Be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking
- Promote analogical thinking
- Be a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information
Combine the best of solitary reflection and social interaction
Reflective, journal-type blog to ..
- Reflect on your teaching experiences
- Keep a log of teacher-training experiences
- Describe what worked for you in the classroom and what did not work
- Share ideas for teaching activities or language games to use in the classroom
Start a class blog to…
- Post class-related information such as calendars, events, homework assignments, …
- Post assignments based on literature readings and have students respond on their own blogs, creating a kind of portfolio of their work
- Communicate with parents
- Provide vocabulary activities or grammar games
- Provide online readings for your students to read and react to
- Provide links to appropriate sites and annotate the links as to what is relevant about them
- Post photos and comment on class activities
- Publish examples of good student writing done in class
- Build a class newsletter, using student-written articles and photos they take
- Link your class with another class somewhere else in the world
*Encourage your students to blog..
The true potential of blogs in schools comes when students and teachers use them as publishing tools
* To create your own blog pl. visit:
Thanks a lot zee.
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