Process och publicering

praktiskt om bloggar i språkundervisningen

Stephanie Hendrick and Therese Örnberg

http://www.sumofmyparts.com/process

What is a blog?

• At first glance, a weblog appears to be the musings of a lone webcrawler, trolling the sea of information that is the World Wide Web. A closer look, however, will reveal a micro world of conversation and monologue joined in a seemingly endless net of hyperlinks.

Why bother???

Advantages

• Practice writing skills

• Better critical reading skills

• Peer review

• Authentic learning situation

• Learn to cite correctly

• Opens door to different types of contact

Disadvantages

• Public: open to critique from strangers

• Opens door to different types of contact

• Takes time to build habits, but once built, invaluable

Student

Student Group

Project

Teacher to Student

Teacher to Teacher

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