Weaving Internet in the classroom

byMa. Elena Delgado

ENP1April 2008

Content The blog as a Publishing tool

Teacher and learners blogs Sample Activities : design criteria Other tools

How?, When? Where? Publish activities in a blog. Students check it after class hours At school, at home…

Blogs in class …

Information is typed and published with a

Anyone who can type, copy, and paste can create and maintain a blog.

The sequence of writings create a record of learning and a resource for others.

A blog is interactive, readers can comment.

Types of blogsTeacher Blog

It promotes exploration of English websites. It provides syllabus information

(assignments, upcoming topics). It serves as a resource of links for self-study.

Types of blogs Learners Blog

May be run by individual learners themselves or by small collaborative groups of learners.

Can be used as journals or e-portfolios.

ActivitiesCriteria Linguistic - What do students need to learn,

review, ? How? (by reading,

writing,speaking,listening) Learner´s interest. Difficulty of task: Low tech vs. High tech.Describe the activities in handoutSee printed samples

Sample activities My English4 class In the design you can include

Text Pictures Links Video Interactive activities

You can… edit

deletekeep track of posts Para ver esta película, debe

disponer de QuickTime™ y deun descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir).

Learners blogsE-portfolios, class blogs

http://sandragutierrez509.blogspot.com/

http://alfredoluna509.blogspot.com/

cartoon-festival

Other useful tools… wikis Student´s pagehttp://luisangellopez.blogspot.com/

Para ver esta película, debedisponer de QuickTime™ y de

un descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir).

Tools for blogsfor social networks

and gadgets

Blinklist Neo counter, answers.com

Para ver esta película, debedisponer de QuickTime™ y de

un descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir).

Para ver esta película, debedisponer de QuickTime™ y de

un descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir).

Cell phones = mobility Informal learning ( new learning spaces) Flexibility (anytime, anywhere) To listen to podcasts To create podcasts To create videoclips

Participating groups Group 403B (25 students) Group 413A ( 28 students) Group 509 ( 30 students) Group 501 ( 26 students)