Saturday
Wink
Wink is a great freeware Tutorial and Presentation tool that could be used to create an online tutorial on how to blog (I suppose I'll have to put this on my 'to do list' now)
Sunday
Wikiversity - Wikibooks
Wikiversity - "a free, open learning environment and community. You can find online courses about many different topics here, and create courses of your own."
BBC - collective - community
The BBC - collective - community, which acts as a space for "exchanging views on new music,film and culture" now has a weblog service for members. It's a basic tool, but it shows just how blogs are becoming more and more part of standard websites.
ColorMatch
The ColorMatch Remix is a great tool for trying out variations of colour for any weblog template redesign.
Thanks to Cyberdash for this link
Thanks to Cyberdash for this link
How the Blog can change English Language Teaching
Thanks also to anne for the link to this article: The Fourth International Symposium on ELT in China: Theoretical and Practical Applications of Emergent Technology in ELT Classrooms; How the Blog Can Change English Language Teaching
There's some good advice here, such as:
"The first step for teachers is to try out blogging for themselves. In this scenario, teachers cannot expect their students to do something that they are not willing to do themselves. Each teacher will have his or her own reasons for starting a blog. These reasons must be clear or the blog will not serve the learner’s language development. The blogs can be as general as a journal of daily thoughts, or be more specific in nature. The teacher should prepare beforehand, an activity that will be a catalyst for the language learner’s needs. "
There's some good advice here, such as:
"The first step for teachers is to try out blogging for themselves. In this scenario, teachers cannot expect their students to do something that they are not willing to do themselves. Each teacher will have his or her own reasons for starting a blog. These reasons must be clear or the blog will not serve the learner’s language development. The blogs can be as general as a journal of daily thoughts, or be more specific in nature. The teacher should prepare beforehand, an activity that will be a catalyst for the language learner’s needs. "
Blog Guidelines for student participation
Thnaks to Anne Davis at EduBlog Insights: for this link to an article in The Daily Northwestern and the blog, which student government leaders are using to encourage students to participate more.
They have a set of Blog guidelines which state:
"Please respect these guidelines. If they are disregarded, we may have to require you to log in to post comments.
1. No personal attacks. Criticise the people's work, attitude, ideas, platforms, the organization, committies etc, but don't use personal insults."
They have a set of Blog guidelines which state:
"Please respect these guidelines. If they are disregarded, we may have to require you to log in to post comments.
1. No personal attacks. Criticise the people's work, attitude, ideas, platforms, the organization, committies etc, but don't use personal insults."
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