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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: April 2005

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Friday, April 15, 2005. I used this class blog. With my intermediate students this term, but it basically 'just grew' rather than me planning it at the beginning of the term. My aim was to experiment with the medium and see what 'worked' with my students. Suggestions of websites that students might find interesting relating to course content, topics discussed in class, public holidays. Giving them a public place (with a class audi...

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: February 2006

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Wednesday, February 15, 2006. Hopefully by now you know what a blog is, know a little bit about what we’ve been up to and are rearing to give it a go! If you want to have a look at what we’ve been doing. If you want to get started. We have copies of the worksheets so you can work through them and design your own blog ready to use with your own students. We would love your feedback please click on comments. What we do with blogs.

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: June 2005

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Friday, June 17, 2005. We came up with a structure (which has been flexible but we have basically stuck to this order):. Students set up personal blog(in class) and email the link to the teacher. Teacher to set up a class blog with links to all students blogs (after class). Show students how to make changes to previous posts (in class). Homework to correct first posting. Respond, Reflect, Review, Rave, Rant). Since we were plannin...

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: July 2005

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Saturday, July 09, 2005. The value of blogs lies in being. Able to link to other sites on the internet. Able to read and reflect on what others have written. An easy way in to having your own website. Obviously, the way that you use a blog is tailored to the needs and interests of your learners. Bearing this in mind, here are a few of the ways we have seen blogs in use. Students review a language learning website. Of course some o...

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: March 2005

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Thursday, March 03, 2005. When I first came across blogs mid 2004, I didn't know what to blog. Started one on Computer Mediated Communication, which was my then research interest, as a reflective place to write down my ideas and what I'd read. Found that I didn't really have the motivation to sustain it - possibly due to a lack of audience. Posted by Karen Haines @ 9:02 pm. Reflections T1, 2006 (Emily). What we do with blogs.

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: January 2006

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Reflections T4, 2005 (Emily). If students wrote anything on their blog I would correct it, using the correction code, and hand it back usually within 24 hours. A few students took advantage of this and would look at the corrections and ask me about them the next day after they had had a chance to make the corrections themselves to check that they understood why the draft had been incorrect. Interested in...

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: September 2005

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Friday, September 02, 2005. Interested in reading about blogs? Here are some articles/presentations about using blogs for language learning. 2003) The year of the weblog. 2003) Suggestions for using blogs in three different ways. 2004) Creating a writing course using blogs. 2004) Blogging and presence online. Want to know more about RSS and aggregates? 2004) RSS: A quick start guide for educators. And then check out Bloglines.

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning?: August 2005

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Taking control: How can blogs support students in their language learning? Tuesday, August 30, 2005. Students believed that blogging helped their writing in terms of improving their grammar and vocabulary but they also felt that their reading improved through being exposed to other people’s blogs. In the focus groups students spoke about learning vocabulary and grammar structures from reading other peoples blogs. Posted by Emily Saavedra @ 11:50 am. Friday, August 05, 2005. Surveys completed in recent mo...