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WHY ??

A vision of students today

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BecauseBlogs are…

Free Environmentally

friendly

Easy!Can be done/accessed

anywhere at anytime

Flexible!

Done collaborativelyPromoting a sense

of belonging

Fun

Varied (multiple intelligences + digital competence)

Challenging

A way of sharing with others

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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.

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Your blog can become a multimedia coursebook.

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1. Establish clear guidelines

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2. Choose your Layout

Pluginsfonts clipart

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3. Use different pages

They give your blog a“website” look!

Some ideas:Our class

Who we areHomeworkE-library

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4. Organise your 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 tags

Usecategories

How can I find

what I want??

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Some possible categories Videos Links of interest Grammar practice Fun zone! Our blogs

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4.Make it collaborately

You can disable them Or you can moderate them.

Iif you want your blog to be more interactive, allow for sts contributions.

B- Make students take an active role

Polls, Opinions, Messages, Riddles, contributions, announcements

A- Profit from Comments

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5. Add widgets & gadgets

www.thewidgetbox.comwww.googlewidget.com

Dictionarieshttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/freesearch.html

A class calendarwww.google.com/calendar

News flashWeather

CountdownsSearch options within blog

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Some ideas:

www.Polldaddy.comwww.Wallwisher.com

www.photobabble.comwww.slideshare.comwww.webquest.org

www.maps.google.es/

6. Make full use of the web

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I. Upload the material you want o use

II. Select sources for sts to look for information

I. Organise sts work

Use Webquests

7. Make it a place to learn

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8. ADD Awards

Star Student Helpers of the weekWord of the day

Voice recordingsMaps

Messages Videos

Webquests/Questionnaires

Grammar/ vocab practice

Fun activitiesSounds (Tongue twisters!)

Jokes Riddles

GamesSongsLinks

Powerpoint presentationsImagesMore…

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8. Become…

Digital teachers

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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

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Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories