Blogs provide many benefits for education including being free, environmentally friendly, easy to access anywhere and anytime, flexible for collaboration, and promoting a sense of belonging. Blogs can present material to students in a familiar way, provide more learning opportunities by increasing authentic language exposure and teaching higher-order thinking skills. Blogs also allow for self-directed learning, sharing with the school community, and keeping a record of resources. Effective blog use requires establishing guidelines, choosing a theme, organizing with a sidebar, making the layout clear and easy to navigate, using tags and categories, and allowing or moderating comments. Blogs should include a variety of content such as student work, discussions, riddles, news, words of the
3. Blogs are Free Environmentally friendly Easy! Can be done/accessed anywhere at anytime Flexible! Done collaboratively Promoting a sense of belonging Fun Varied ( multiple intelligences + digital competence ) Challenging
4. 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 Blooms 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.
9. Organise a Sidebar Make your blogs layout as clear and easy to navigate as possible Make sure students know how to access information Use tags Use categories How can I find what I want ??
10. Profit from Comments You can disable them if you want your blog to be more interactive and allow for sts contributions. They could submit work, discuss, suggest, etc. Or you can moderate them.
11. ADD Star Student + Pet Sounds (Tongue twisters!) Helpers of the week Riddles calendars Webquest/ Questionnaires News Word of the day Weather Voice recordings Maps- Games dictionaries Videos Songs 際際滷shows Webquests Links Jokes Coursebooks Games Powerpoint presentations Images Messages Ha!
14. How much do you remember?! 1-Blogs are Provide 3 definitions! 2- How shall we make sts check our blogs on a regular basis? 3- why shall we use sidebars? 4- what should our blogs include? 5- Why do we insist on your using blogs?
15. Answers! 5- Why do we insist on your using blogs?
16. Did you enjoy it? Now Lets keep on working and making the most out of our blogs!!