Week 2 - reflection on ABCD and sleep deprivation

What's first - sleep deprivation or ABCD?
I want to be on task, see all my colleagues' posts and comments, but find it very hard to stay awake. I woke up early, after a 4 times interrupted night sleep (10 year old boy with sleeping disorder :) ) and wanted to post my thoughts in my blog. I had it all figured out and now I can't remember half of it - The method, the other methods I have learned last year  - the Process Model. the Mixed Focus Model - the way I can "blend" them together...
I think I will continue this afternoon, after work and the children's after-school activities.
"See" you then,
Nourit

Students blogs

Andhika  www.andhikakurniawati.blogspot.com  Rahmat  http://ryedutech.blogspot.com  Shakhnoza  http://webskillshahnoza.blogspot.com/  Nada  http://nadaelsoufi.blogspot.com/  Carol  http://carolina-ortiz-ruffinelli.blogspot.com/  Irina  http://irina-rumyantseva.blogspot.com/   Hassan  http://hassanrahmeh.blogspot.com/   Eugenie  http://eugeniewebskillcourses.blogspot.com/   Cecilia  http://arriagada-cecilia2010.blogspot.com/   Moo  http://arjaanmoo.blogspot.com/  Yudi  http://milleniasetia.blogspot.com/  Perizat  www.perizat-astana.blogonize.com  Nourit  http://englishworldwidenet.blogspot.com/  Francis     http://francismbatia.blogspot.com  Maria S.  http://maryhelentheteacher.blogspot.com/  Maria Andrea  http://lookinginsideforabetteroutside.blogspot.com/  Tony  http://www.vaialabeachside.blogonize.com/  Hala  http://technoenglishusers.blogspot.com/

Reflection on blogs as a teaching tool – Week 1

During last year I learned how to build a WebQuest . I liked the tool although I have yet to see when and how I can implement it.

While reading what Campbell, Stanley and Ferlazzo have to say about blogs, I was convinced it is a different but more thorough tool than the WebQuest. A blog gives us the chance to create an ongoing process of learning and dialogue. That is not to say that a WebQuest is not a good tool but it seems to me it is more limited.

As both Campbell and Stanley states, a blog is more "user friendly" and even those of us with more limited computer knowledge can open one or read it.

As Ferlazzo suggested, I opened a web page on "Jottit" (https://ourworldwidenet.jottit.com/?m=edit ). I found it very easy, indeed, but also more limited than the blog on blogger.com. I therefore prefer the one we use.

From the three blogs mentioned by Campbell and Stanley, I would favor using the tutor blog. Unfortunately, I think that my students are not responsible enough to maintain a blog routine so a learner's blog can be a good one-time exercise (to form it and work on one project) only.They need a framework given by their teacher.

On the other hand, this type of blog can also be used as a portfolio for book reports each of them needs to do. It can be a good platform to read one another comments and learn from it.

I never taught an advanced ESL class, but I imagine that a Class blog can be used as described by Campbell and Stanley as a more informal way of exchanging ideas related to English lessons and topics presented in them.

To sum up, I think I might prefer to use a tutor blog, which will enable me to give my pupils more practice in reading and writing.

I must admit, though, that there are a few technical questions I still don't have the answer to such as how do I create a "permanent link" in the blog? How can I monitor my student's work on sites I send them to?