Dear Colleagues,
I feel lucky being chosen to take part in such an interactive course. I have always tried to integrate technology in my teaching but without much success. Now I feel that there is a framework (http://umbc.uoregon.edu/eteacher/webskills/index.html) that links everything together.
I read the article on blogging for ELT and I came up with some questions:
1) In a tutor blog, only the tutor can POST messages. Others can only comment. Is it true or false
2) In a learner blog, only the learner can POST messages. Others can only comment. Is it true or false
3) In a class blog, all students and the teacher can both POST and COMMENT. Is it true or false? DO they have the same identical username and password?
4) What Internet sites or serivces you recommend can be used for SITE FEED if the teacher wants to be updated when any student update his blog?
Ahmad
4 comments:
Hello, Ahmad
I have seen your questions. Let me shre my thoiughts about them;
1. True, students are just restricted to 'being able to write comments to the teacher's posts'.
2.True.
3. True. This is a share area' with teacher and students being able to write to the main area.'
Manana
Dear Ahmad,
Have you figured out the answers to these? I responded to #4 on Nicenet.
There are many tools, and many ways to do things...
This is a very good way to start off!
Yours,
Deborah
Hello, Ahmad.
Manana is quite right on your questions, but I would like to share a bit with you too.
Unless the tutor or the student share their password and signing procedures, both can post rather than comment.
And as our instructor, Deborah Healey, stated on Nicenet.org, you will have to tell your students to include your email address for students to let you know when they post new material to be seen by the instructor or/and classmates.
Best regards from Costa Rica,
Jonathan
Dear Manana, Deborah and Jonathan,
Thank you for your valuable tips. I think I understand blogs much better now.
Still, I tried to comment on your comments individually but I did not know how.
Thank you indeed for your support.
Ahmad
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