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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
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.
Your blog can become a multimedia coursebook.
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1. Establish clear guidelines
2. Choose your Layout
Pluginsfonts clipart
3. Use different pages
They give your blog a“website” look!
Some ideas:Our class
Who we areHomeworkE-library
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??
Some possible categories Videos Links of interest Grammar practice Fun zone! Our blogs
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
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
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
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
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…
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
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories