EduBlog Insights

The Electronic Village (EV) Online Sessions 2004 will start on January 26 and end on March 5. You do NOT have to be a member of TESOL, nor do you have to register for TESOL 2004, to take part in these FREE events. The session I am involved with is ‘Creating and using weblogs in ESL/EFL’.  I will be one of 4 moderators.  The other moderators are Sandy Peters, Aaron Campbell, and Joe Luft. The session will target ESL/EFL teachers with little or no experience in creating blogs who would like to use this technique for educational purposes, but don’t know how to get started.  We will be introducing participants to free weblog hosting software.  Registrations for the session will be accepted January 12-26.

I am excited to be a part of this endeavor.  Last year Sandy and I had a session on creating an online magazine. It was a lot of fun.  For this years weblog session, we have changed the description a little from the current online posted version.  Here are the topics:

• Getting started

• Exploring weblogs

• Weblog Think-Abouts

• Creating our Weblogs

• Focusing on features of weblogs

• Finding our voices and building a community

• Wrapping it up

If you know any ESL/EFL people who would be interested, let them know about this session. Some of you had expressed interest and if you would like to sign up, please do!  You don’t have to build a blog if you already have one but perhaps you could offer some encouraging comments to those new to the world of blogging.  We are trying to keep the process very simple yet effective. (no small task, huh?)  We don’t want to overwhelm them.  We are trying to show good esl/efl examples and show the possibilities.  It will springboard off of a yahoo discussion group.  We’ll be using a weblog for the syllabus - a week at a time.  We probably will create a group weblog for fun close to the end of the process.

If you have any questions, let me know.

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