Transcript APPLICATION OF BLOGGGING IN FOREIN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

APPLICATION OF
BLOGGGING IN FOREIN
LANGUAGE EDUCATION
http://languageday.blogspot.com/
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AMGD ISHAK (831)393-1875
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What is a blog?
• A Blog (short for "Weblog") is an
interactive, personalized Web journal
for posting your views, art, rants,
raves, reviews, pictures, musicanything that you want to share with
the teaming masses (or a private
group).
Why Blogs?
• To provide extra reading practice for students.
• To guide students to online resources appropriate
for their level.
• To increase the sense of community in a class.
• To encourage opportunities for introverted
students to express themselves outside the
classroom
• To promote the use of technology and various
teaching materials: audio, video, power point,
maps, etc
• Easy to assess from students’ perspective
Why Blogs? continued
To stimulate out-of-class discussion.
 To follow up, monitor students’ progress after
class hours
 To accommodate the 21 century requirement of
using technology
 As an online portfolio of student written work.
 To help build a closer relationship between
students in large classes.
’s create your blog. On Google, type ‘blogger’.
Fill out the blank boxes.
Name your blog and check availability.
There are some templates you can choose from.
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That’s it. Let’s start blogging.
You need to ‘Customize’ before posting your teaching materials by clicking it.
You can select or remove the authors and reade
Time to upload for your students.
Type in the title, such as ‘listening assignmen
Upload Video
Insert picture
Hyperlink
If you saved the material in your computer, you can bring it into your blog
You can embed images.
Give a task, such as ‘describe the picture in one paragraph.
You can also make it hyperlink, link, or e
Video file posting from your computer.
Give tasks with the document, image, audio, or video.
i.e) Open the doc. File and answer the questions while viewing the video.
Check this website as well.
http://languageday.blogspot.com/
Now you have contents in your blog. Continue blogging.
References
• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/t
hink/articles/blogging-elt
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenni
al_Generation
• https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/avee/
web/blog_benefits.html
• http://www.ats.neu.edu/bbblog/200
7/08/how-to-add-blog-to-yourblackboard.html