Effective communication in the learning classroom is necessary so that students can become more proficient in English. Eggbert describes many ideas for facilitating communication among students using technology. One of those is what we are currently doing in this class. Each students has their own blog and is responsible for posting their own and commenting on others.
I could see how this would be a great tool to use with the ELL learners, because they would be forced to write in English, and the pressure would be on them to write well so that others could their message. It would also help my weak spellers because it would force them to spell correctly, in addition spell check would make them select the correct spelling for their words.
I really did not understand many of the other ideas, I don't know that they would be useful since I have not personally tried it, or seen it done. Implementation of a blog such as this would help close the gap of a transmission approach, and make the students problem solvers and critical thinkers.
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Class like this are good. We are familiar with posting comments on WebCT but this class takes it a further step. This class will only get better once we do our RSS feeds, then we can read about each other interest. For an ELL this would give plenty of input on topics they are interested in.
Hi Lizardo,
See you've figured out how to embed YouTube videos. Love the Daily Show video you've got on there!
-Dr. Wright
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