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Nicky Hockly, The Consultants-E

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Technology and us

Blogs

Sample EFL blogs

Planning your blog

Blogger

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technophobe

geek

digital visitors

digital residents

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What is a blog?

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Blogs quiz

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Visit: http://tanausa2005.blogspot.com

•What’s the blog about?

•Who is blogging?

•Who is the audience?

•Can you spot 3 languages?

•Is the blog live now?

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Podcasts

Freshman English blog [Turkey]

FCE blog [Brazil]

3 Sample EFL blogs

Class exchange blog [Brazil & Argentina]

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Blog Topic Blogger Readers Media Comment

Freshman English

FCE blog

Brazil-Argentina

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Blogs with students

• pros

• cons

• ideas for using blogs

Listen to Carla Arena,

Brazil

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1 Class, teacher or student blogWho will write? Who will read?

3 Steps to planning your blog

2 TopicContent? Media?Model?

3 Time framesWhen start?Frequency of postings? Life of blog?

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Your blogs

a) Go to Blogger and click

http://www.blogger.com

b) Create a Google

account (or sign in)

c) Name your blog

- and carry on!

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Join our 2-week Blogs course

to learn how to blog with your students!

http://www.theconsultants-e.com/

training/courses/blogs.aspx

THANKS!