blogging nerves
doing some reading around different literacies, I've been thinking about blogs and how/where they fit. what are the conventions of blogging? having noticed that my student's comment on my blog used shortened forms (familar for email and texts) and very imformal punctuation (as i do with lack of capital letters). At what stage of my blogging history did my writing change/adapt? when i'm writing i do go back to change spelling errors, etc, but i would think that i still follow many of the conventions of writing Standard English.
i've been particulary thinking about why i was so nervous about using blogs in the class. i was never really sure how the students would react to every lesson starting/ending with posting (creating a new consevatism in my sessions? - Breen) but what other norms do i have in my class. Often i will email the students a rough outline of plans for the class, often with links to the work they would be doing. by 10am (to allow late-comers and logging on) i usually gather the group together and do some kind of activity (linked to either my session or something their other tutors have been doing) before then splitting off again into groups/pairs/individuals.
i also do very little individual work in this class. when i was planning thier exam prep classes this usually involved my talking to their personal tutor about particular grammar/skill weaknesses then researching links to Internet quizzes from which they could choose to complete. It almost felt like a cop-out, like i wasn;t 'teaching'. Yet at one time (b4 my involvement in the ICT Effective Practice Study) this was the structure of the majority of my lessons (my inherent conservatism?)
so i was nervous about using blogs as i was uncertain that this new conservatism i was creating would not be well recieved by the studnets, that they wouldn't see the value of it and i wasn't confident that i could 'sell' it to them.
how will i feel about it next year? i'll have L1 and L2 CALL classes AND be personal tutor to an E3 group. How will the different levels cope with it?
i've been particulary thinking about why i was so nervous about using blogs in the class. i was never really sure how the students would react to every lesson starting/ending with posting (creating a new consevatism in my sessions? - Breen) but what other norms do i have in my class. Often i will email the students a rough outline of plans for the class, often with links to the work they would be doing. by 10am (to allow late-comers and logging on) i usually gather the group together and do some kind of activity (linked to either my session or something their other tutors have been doing) before then splitting off again into groups/pairs/individuals.
i also do very little individual work in this class. when i was planning thier exam prep classes this usually involved my talking to their personal tutor about particular grammar/skill weaknesses then researching links to Internet quizzes from which they could choose to complete. It almost felt like a cop-out, like i wasn;t 'teaching'. Yet at one time (b4 my involvement in the ICT Effective Practice Study) this was the structure of the majority of my lessons (my inherent conservatism?)
so i was nervous about using blogs as i was uncertain that this new conservatism i was creating would not be well recieved by the studnets, that they wouldn't see the value of it and i wasn't confident that i could 'sell' it to them.
how will i feel about it next year? i'll have L1 and L2 CALL classes AND be personal tutor to an E3 group. How will the different levels cope with it?
posted by Quiet Dancer @ 12:35 pm
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