Sunday, February 20, 2005
SFL Blogspace event #2 - Campbell on weblogs
Moving on...the second of three blogspace events for this workshop.
A warm welcome to all those that joined us late last week--you can catch up by looking at the postings. As promised, this week we'll start to examine how blogs can be exploited in English language teaching.
Objectives
As indicated in the workshop description, this week you will:
Examine various types of blogs currently being used in an ESL/EFL context to:
- see how colleagues in the field of education are using them, and
- get some ideas for starting our own.
Blogs in EFL classes - some general concepts
Seval already mentioned in one of her postings that she "would really like to know how we can intergrate this into our teaching and use this with our students." So, first let's begin by looking at how Aaron Campbell suggests weblogs can be used in ESL classes.
- Point your browser at: http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html.
- When you read Campbell's suggestions, think about our specific context at EMU--which ideas do you think would work well with our students; which do you think wouldn't work. Why?
- Post your reaction to any of Campbell's ideas in this blog. Check the blog to see what other people thought, and if there are any that you strongly agree or disagree with, add a comment.
Coming up later this week in this event...
We'll look in more detail how one teacher, Andrew Johnson, uses class and learner blogs in designing and running a writing course. Then we'll visit a TESL bloglog and visit some real live blogs and report back with any ideas that inspired us.
