Prompt #2
*BLACKBOARD – Egbert, J. (2005). CALL Essentials: Principals and Practices in CALL Classrooms.—Ch. 1. Introduction: Principles of CALL.
*RICHARDSON Ch. 3. Weblogs: Getting Started
Egbert describes the optimal conditions for classroom language learning. Discuss how blogs and blogging can be a tool for achieving these conditions with ELL students. Finally, describe your own experience creating your blog this week. What topic or topics do you plan to blog about?
I think blogging is a great tool for ELL students. It gives them a chance to experiment with the language in another setting other than the classroom, and to interact with each other. I think it would be good to always give the student a question to guide their blogging with, depending on what is going on in class. The student could also share with their class mates pictures and facts about their home countries. Blogging has endless possibilities in the ESL classroom.
I have really enjoyed creating my new ESL blog. It was great to learn how to add pictures and links to my blog. I added links to my ESL blog early in the week about writing, and I really enjoyed doing that! I think I would like to blog about using writing and journaling as a tool in the ESL classroom, since this is an interest of mine. But I don't want to limit myself to that. I think my blog will evolve as the class progresses, and it will be a great record of the class, and all that I will learn this semester.
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Suzanne,
ReplyDeleteI agree about the usefulness of blogs in the areas of journalism. When I worked with a rural newspaper that did not have a website, I found that I wanted to blog the stories I wrote. I created a blog, posted some stories, then panicked about getting sued. I deleted it. But I heard some other reporters from around the area talk about how they read blogs to stay current with people's thoughts on news stories... or oftentimes to get some great leads.