Teachers in my cluster will have now seen the article in our local newspaper promoting a Blog competition. Others mayhave followed travel blogs, and for some the word itself is foreign. Why should we as teachers be promoting it? How can we use it in our classrooms? Is it just another ICT fad?
Many of the PoLT (Principles of Learning and Teaching) surveys across the state have reported that the two things students hate the most are "oral presentations" and "journals". And yet many kids have MYSPACE accounts, are really into You tube and may already be Blogging. Podcasts can be the modern version of an "oral" and Blogging (keeping a web journal) is a journal.
Hhmm school site won't allow me access to some of the links I am after. Will finish this later at home.
To be continued ...................
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Dear Helen,
We are looking forward to integrating blogs into our classroom teaching. We feel great confidence that as non geeks we too can integrate groovy technology into our somewhat boring English lessons
Shan and Dot
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