weary blogger
i am so incredab;y tired. been to liverpool on the college trip today and i am wipped, who would have thought this would be more tiring than a normal day of teaching?
i am going to use the student blogs as the basis for my next assignment for my ESOL debates module. i am a little unsure what the main focus of the assignment will be, but it has been a really interesting experience so it's worth exploring.
i did a group interview for my last class with my Lr group, and we talked about literacy in L1 and L2, learning english in their own country, and an evaluation of using blogs. I had been disappointed in the fact that the students hadn;t continued to use their blogs in their own time, but they gave 2 reasons for this. One was that they were unsure what to write (on class i always gave them topic ideas) and secondly that they were embarrassed about thier english and the mistakes they make. This was really intersting as i had never checked their blogs for errors, comments were always about content. Although we had never overtly talked about this they hadn;t picked up on it either way. they didn;t notice that i wasn't proof reading thier work, or encouraging them to proof read their own, nor were they conciously aware that i wasn;t proff reading.
how has using blogs improved their literacy in L2? this is a more difficult question to answer. I didn;t do any pre- or post- assessment tasks, all i have is thier blogs themselves. one of my main aims for using the blogs was for them to record their thoughts and ideas, and to write in English for fluency rather than for accuracy. a blog is an ideal medium for this.
how much does it being a global medium influence it's impact? how would it have differed had i asked them to keep a paper journal? I wouldn;t have been able to comment at any time, nor would they have been able to comment on each others. other staff/tutors wouldn;t have been able to read and commetn and the studnets wouldn;t have been able to read blogs from around the globe.
i would like to think about other ways that blogs can be incorporated into the classroom. there are so many around now. the guardian news blog would be an interesting medium to explore.
i am going to use the student blogs as the basis for my next assignment for my ESOL debates module. i am a little unsure what the main focus of the assignment will be, but it has been a really interesting experience so it's worth exploring.
i did a group interview for my last class with my Lr group, and we talked about literacy in L1 and L2, learning english in their own country, and an evaluation of using blogs. I had been disappointed in the fact that the students hadn;t continued to use their blogs in their own time, but they gave 2 reasons for this. One was that they were unsure what to write (on class i always gave them topic ideas) and secondly that they were embarrassed about thier english and the mistakes they make. This was really intersting as i had never checked their blogs for errors, comments were always about content. Although we had never overtly talked about this they hadn;t picked up on it either way. they didn;t notice that i wasn't proof reading thier work, or encouraging them to proof read their own, nor were they conciously aware that i wasn;t proff reading.
how has using blogs improved their literacy in L2? this is a more difficult question to answer. I didn;t do any pre- or post- assessment tasks, all i have is thier blogs themselves. one of my main aims for using the blogs was for them to record their thoughts and ideas, and to write in English for fluency rather than for accuracy. a blog is an ideal medium for this.
how much does it being a global medium influence it's impact? how would it have differed had i asked them to keep a paper journal? I wouldn;t have been able to comment at any time, nor would they have been able to comment on each others. other staff/tutors wouldn;t have been able to read and commetn and the studnets wouldn;t have been able to read blogs from around the globe.
i would like to think about other ways that blogs can be incorporated into the classroom. there are so many around now. the guardian news blog would be an interesting medium to explore.
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