Blogging+for+English+Learning

Blogs are terrific tools for teaching and learning English. They provide a platform for 2-way communication, and can be used to support reading, writing, listening and speaking. You can add voice and video recordings to your blogs, and encourage the students to do the same. Digital literacy is crucial to the success of ELLs both in the US and abroad, so let's start blogging!

[|This is the slideshow we used to teach students to start their blogs and Google Reader sites.] In slides #1 and #3 you will have to overlay a screenshot of your current class blog.

[|This is a planning sheet you could use to introduce the parts of the blog,] and help the students decide on their title, etc., before the actual class.

[|Here is a blog vocabulary quiz.]

[|This is the link to Victoria's class blog for Summer 2011]. Use the tabs at the top of the home page to see the student's blogs.