ESL + EFL friendly blogs for learning English/teaching English

ESL EFL friendly blogs for learning English/teaching English:

"Blogs for learning English teaching English or ESL EFL friendly blogs provides links to economics blogs, travel blogs, and many other types of blogs. These blogs can be used for learning English teaching English because ESL EFL students are welcome and encouraged to post comments on each blog. "

Thanks to James Trotta for this site...

Change of Design

I have changed the design of the site again - It's been long overdue, especially as the tag box code, etc meant that the blog took a long time to load. Now the main blog should load first and the other facilities some time after...

Teacher Blog from Korea

An English as a second language blog - ESL blog

"the first time you teach something, you learn something. The second time you teach something, the students learn something. The third time you teach something, no one learns anything."

Reflective blog from a Korea-based EFL teacher

Free Bulletin Board / Document Review

Here's another tool that might be useful for educators preparing papers for publication, etc. :

QuickTopic Document Review - QuickTopic bulletin board:

"You've authored a document and you'd like your peers to review it. Quick Doc ReviewSM gives you an instant private space for gathering comments on any HTML document (Microsoft Word documents too). Your group can comment on each paragraph, directly within the document, and you can also display, sort, and print the comments separately. Comments are all in one central place. This is true collaboration, much better than mailing documents around and having people make comments in isolation. And it's private, but still easy to access."

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The revolution should not be eulogised:

"Weblogs are just too varied, too idiosyncratic, to fit into an existing box. Industry analysts might call this disruptive technology because weblogs have changed personal publishing so profoundly that the old rules no longer apply. We are at the beginning of a new age of online publishing "

Weblogg-ed - Using Weblogs and RSS in Education ::

"In discussions with students about why so many (at least on our campus) are so uncomfortable with blogging and resistant, we had some provocative conversations about accountability - not everyone wants their words published online where anyone can see and you are held accountable for what you say"

...from a summary of a much longer article entitled I'm Blogging This: A Closer Look at Why People Blog.

Thanks to Stephen's Web for the link

ERADC - ePortfolio research and development community:

"Many view the ePortfolio as the future of learning, a powerful aid for personal development. The ePortfolio can serve as a tool for learning, assessment, career management and knowledge supervision."

Speculative paper discussing how the use of webogs and e-portfolios could be combined