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- 2. WHY ??
- 3. Blogs are… Free Environmentally friendly Easy! Can be done/accessed anywhere at anytime Flexible! Done collaboratively Promoting a sense of belonging Fun Varied ( multiple intelligences + digital competence ) Challenging
- 4. BLOGS CAN… Present material to digital natives in a way that is familiar Provide more learning opportunities. Increase exposure to authentic language Teach higher order thinking skills (see Bloom’s taxonomy ) Provide students with a real audience Allow for self-directed and independent learning. Share information with school community (family, friends, teacher, heads, etc) Keep a record of resources and activities.
- 5. HOW??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
- 8. OUR BLOGS!
- 9. Organise a Sidebar Make your blog’s layout as clear and easy to navigate as possible Make sure students know how to access information Use tags Use categories How can I find what I want ??
- 10. Profit from Comments You can disable them if you want your blog to be more interactive and allow for sts contributions. They could submit work, discuss, suggest, etc. Or you can moderate them.
- 11. ADD Star Student + Pet Sounds (Tongue twisters!) Helpers of the week Riddles – calendars Webquest/ Questionnaires News Word of the day Weather Voice recordings Maps- Games dictionaries Videos Songs Slideshows Webquests Links Jokes Coursebooks Games Powerpoint presentations Images Messages Ha!
- 12. Resources Readers! http://www.roalddahl.com/ http://www.winnie-the-witch.com/flash.php http://chocolatefactorymovie.warnerbros.com/ Videos Voice recorders! Fonts and cute stuff! www.dafont.com www.clipartof.com www.graphicgarden.com Useful sites! http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories http://webquest.org http://maps.google.es/ https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/ http://www.teachingvillage.org/blogs/#Blogs http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ http://www.classtools.net http://googlewidgets.net More on blogs
- 13. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories Creating - designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making Evaluating - Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring Analysing - Comparing, organising, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using, executing Understanding - Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying Remembering - Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding
- 14. How much do you remember?! 1-Blogs are… Provide 3 definitions! 2- How shall we make sts check our blogs on a regular basis? 3- why shall we use sidebars? 4- what should our blogs include? 5- Why do we insist on your using blogs?
- 15. Answers! 5- Why do we insist on your using blogs?
- 16. Did you enjoy it? Now… Let’s keep on working and making the most out of our blogs!!
- 17. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories