blogs

=Blogging=

What is blogging?
For a brief introduction, read this article published by the BBC / British Council : http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/blogging-elt

Why should you and / or your students get involved?
Take a look at the list of [|top ten reasons to blog or not to blog] - how many of them do you agree with?

Discussion
//Do you agree / disagree with these statements? Why? Why not?//
 * Blogging should be fun for the learners - it shouldn't feel like work
 * You shouldn't force students to blog
 * It's better to give each student an individual, learner blog
 * Class blogs generally don't work very well
 * Correcting student work is not effective in blog (i.e. electronically)
 * It's difficult to keep the momentum going with a blogging project

Setting up a blog
1) If you haven't got a blog, then you should sign up for one. There are many places you can go to set one up:
 * [|Edublogs]
 * [|Blogger]
 * **[|Wordpress]**

Choose one of them and create your blog.

2) Once you have done this, check out the differences between blogs by looking at the following blogs: [|Michael Ivy's Rome English Blog] and [|Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day for Teaching ELL, ESL & EFL]

One is a **Teacher blog** (blog set up by a teacher for teachers) and the other is a **Tutor blog** (a blog by teacher(s) for a group of students, class,etc)

3) What are the differences between a class blog and a learner blog? [|Check this article]



Just for Fun
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 * Are you blogging this?**