BLOGGING IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOMby

WebQuest Description: Nowadays tech is so important into people´s lives, considering this theory the Educational System has nowadopted tech as a fundamental process,Specially the blogs that can be involve into the learning process where most of students canshare a lot of fundamental information through publishing on their blogs ; Blogs can be part of the learning and development skills ofall students.Grade Level: College / AdultCurriculum: TechnologyKeywords: technology, blog, teaching, learning, development skills, students.Published On: Last Modified: 2013-10-07 16:03:05WebQuest URL: http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=212146

        Imagine how different are things and the ways to learn nowadays, and how manypeople around the world are now using blogs in order to create, share or exchange information through this kind of virtualcommunities. Think a little bit about the things you can do by using a blog, because a blog can help anybody to acquired knowledgewhenever this blog has true information based on real references. A blog can link students around the world if they have commoninterests about a specific information or topic. Many people can find familiar the blogs, but it is good to say that it also can be used ina classroom with educational purposes and it will not take too much time into created it.Imagine how different are things and the waysto learn nowadays, and how many people around the world are now using blogs in order to create, share or exchange informationthrough this kind of virtual communities. Think a little bit about the things you can do by using a blog, because a blog can helpanybody to acquired knowledge whenever this blog has true information based on real references. A blog can link students aroundthe world if they have common interests about a specific information or topic. Many people can find familiar the blogs, but it is good tosay that it also can be used in a classroom with educational purposes and it will not take too much time into created it.

1- Students will create a gmail account in order to later create their blogs.2- Students will create a blog in order to have their owncyberspace in which they will publish fundamental and interesting information about an English class. The blog has to be creative andmust have an interesting color choice. 3- Students will embed videos to their blogs.4-  Students will embed word doc, pdfdocuments and power point presentations to their blogs. Thecontent of this Web site must be interesting to people.5-  Studentswill be available to create an avatar on their blogs. The avatar will explain what the blog is about.

  Task 1: Follow the steps in order to create a Gmail account.     The first thing you need to do is go tothe follow link https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?service=mail&continue=https%3A%2F  %2Faccounts.google.com%2FManageAccount&btmpl=mobile_tier2&hl=es-419 and then complete all therequirements that will be asked to fill in   ·  Click on the link how to create a Gmail account. The video will help youto understand in an easy way how to create your Gmail accoun     Task 2: Follow the steps in order tocreate a blog.           After creating your Gmail account, now you cancreate your blog.         1.   On the Google Search you are going towrite blogger.com that will link you immediately into the place where you will write your Gmail  address and of course thepassword to log in into your Gmail account. ·     Click on the link how to create a blog. The video will help you tocreate your blog in an easy and quickly way.                  Task 3:Follow the steps in order to embed videos to your blog.       ·  Click on the link How to Embed a videoin blogger                            Task4: follow the steps in order to embed word doc, PowerPoint presentations and Pdf. docs in blogger.·                              ·    Clickon the link How to embed a word document in blogger.·                              ·    Click on the link How to embed a PowerPoint presentationinblogger.·                             

  ·    Click on the link How to embed a pdf doc in blogger.                                Task 5: follow the steps in order to createan Avatar to your blog.               1-    The first thing you need todo is go to the website that is named Gravatar.com.               2-  Create an account to this specifically website to log in.         ·  Click on the link how to add an avatarto your blog. The video will explain you the steps you need in order to create your avatar. 

Your Blog will be evaluated by the  the criteria below. Please make every effort to obtain maximum scores in eachcategory.   Hope you have fun while preparing your blog.

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Congratulations!  You have just completed your  process of creating your own blog. You have learned aboutsomething really important which is embedding docs and publishing them in your blog.Now, you  may find pretty normal theaction of creating a website like a blog; before today’s webquest how many of you were familiar with the terms of creating blogs andpublishing docs to it? You have only done a few great things to do on blogs, but there are hundreds of things you have not done yet.You can go deeper in to this topic and once you try something new, it is pretty incredible the amount of new thing you mayfind.Consider the following questions in order to broaden your knowledge: 1-   Do you think that the process ofintegrating tech to the classroom has now improved the ways of learning for most of students or just for some of them?2-   What are the aspects that tech has improve in the student’s developments? 3-    Does the fact ofhaving a blog will make easier the process of learning in the language classroom?

As students we probably should now what is the best for us in order to make a lot easier our process of learning. That is why I have created this WebQuest in order to help students to create their own blogs. This WebQuest introduces students to the basics of blogs, and may perhaps create on them the desire of creating new things to their blogs, of course with educational purposes.The videos and other resources provided will not onlyhelp them to understand the topic, but it will also allow them to have fun during the lesson.

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