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Blog-based lesson and e-portfolios
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Description
This session provides basic notions like planning a lesson and put into practice what you might have learned about blogs to design a lesson supported with e-portfolios to collect students' activities for evaluation.
Objectives
At the end of the session, participants will be able to
- plan and design a lesson online using blogs
- keep track of some of the activities their students do planned for the blog-based lesson (writing/listening/reading/reflecting on own learning
Target audience
- Foreign language teachers
- Requirements: Having an e-mail account, familiarity with blogs, word processors and Internet access
Interest Section:
TESOL CALL Interest Section
Weekly content
Week 1: Getting Started
During this week, participants will be...
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Exchanging introductions and getting familiar with the group environments
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Trying tools for synchronous communication to be used during the workshop
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Using a Group map
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Answering a survey to determine previous experience with blogging
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Recording course expectations in Chinswing
Week 2: Understanding and planning web-based lessons
During this week, participants will be...
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Discussing what a blog-based lesson is
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Knowing the stages to plan a blog-based lesson
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Learning about approaches for a blog-based lesson
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Outlining a blog-based lesson
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Sharing outlines of blog-based lesson plans
Week 3: Designing your web-based lesson in Blogger
During this week, participants will be...
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Setting up an account to design a blog-based lesson in Blogger
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Adding a brief biography
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Learning how to add elements in Blogger
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Designing a blog-based lesson based on an outline
Week 4: e-portfolios
During this week, participants will be...
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Defining e-portfolios
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Discussing blogs and e-portfolios
- discussing why e-portfolios
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Adding students' e-portfolios to blog-based lessons
Week 5: Project development
During this week, participants will be...
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Sharing, evaluating and reflecting on blog-based lesson
Week 6: Rounding off
During this week, participants will be...
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Discussing the challenges of using blogs to plan web-based lessons
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Assessing participants' self-learning
- Evaluating the session
- Participating in the closing ceremony
Moderators:
Teadira Pérez is an EAP teacher at the School of Modern Languages, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida - Venezuela. She has an MSc in Linguistics and a PhD in Education. She has been working in the use of ICT for foreign language teaching and learning in the last five years. She is a founder member and President of AVEALMEC.
Miguel Mendoza is an ESP teacher at Universidad Central de Venezuela in the school of librarianship. He holds a Master’s degree in the teaching of English as a foreign language. He’s an ICT consultant for the
British Council and has worked as tutor for Consultants-E. He’s a founder member and Secretary of AVEALMEC. Blog: http://the-ve-blog.blogspot.com/
Evelyn Izquierdo is an ESP/EAP teacher at Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) since 1996. She has an MSc in EFL. She has been working in the use of ICT since 2005 after becoming a member. She is a member of the Distance Education Committee at the Humanities and Education Faculty (UCV) and a founder member of AVEALMEC (Venezuela's CALL Association). She moderates several Yahoo Groups related to ICT and ELT, and was recently awarded as a full scholarship recipient to attend the WorldCALL 2008 in Fukuoka, Japan. She is currently taken a one-year postgraduate program called MUVEnation sponsored by the the EC and was chosen by Languagelab.com to be a Spanish Teacher in their Sim 'Ciudad Bonita', in Second Life.
Blogs: http://beyondtheenglishclassroomwalls.blogspot.com/, http://worldcall2008japan.blogspot.com/, http://mymuvenationexperience.blogspot.com/,
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