Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun)News Commenting Blog: jccsstm-eng.spaces.live.com

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Procedure

Step 1

5 students from 6A (Group A) will be assigned to writing their news comments and post them on to the blog

Step 2

Other 5 students from 6B (Group B)will be assigned to write their responses to the news comments from 6A

Step 3

One week later, Group B students need to write the news comments and Group A students need to make their feedback

Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun)News Commenting Blog: jccsstm-eng.spaces.live.com

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Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun)News Commenting Blog: jccsstm-eng.spaces.live.com

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VS

- Informal

- Less stressful

- Easy for sharing

- Formal

- Stressful

- Difficult for sharing

Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun)News Commenting Blog: jccsstm-eng.spaces.live.com

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Our Blog

Promote peer learning

Develop a sharing community

Facilitate language learning

Reduce stress

From TEACHERS’ perspective:

Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun)News Commenting Blog: jccsstm-eng.spaces.live.com

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Our Blog

Learn from reading

Create topics for discussions

Give them ideas for different issues

Learn for others

From STUDENTS’ perspective:

Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun)News Commenting Blog: jccsstm-eng.spaces.live.com

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Downside

-Feel stressful writing in the blog

-Afraid of being laughed at

-Think it is time-consuming

-Think that the blog is boring