The blogs we have been asked to visit are all related to education, languages, and ICT related to both the previous.
The first, http://ictsilviaartero.blogspot.com/, is used to establish the objectives for the use of English in infant education and how to use blogs and other ICT tools in the process. I find the outlay, practical and easy to follow.
The second, and actually my favorite of the 4, https://oupeltglobalblog.com/, Fun with Phonics by Charlotte Rance is set out more along the lines of a newspaper, with more technical content than the other blogs and aims to aide the teaching of English to secondary education students with practical teaching ideas and advice in the peculiarities of teaching English as a foreign language.
The third blog, http://clilforsuccess.blogspot.com/ explains bilingual teaching in schools and the blog itself is based on the use of videos.
Finally, http://bibliopoemes.blogspot.com/ approaches poetry in teaching infants, and although I don´t think it would be directly useful for me, I think it would be for infant school teachers. The layout of the blog is also more infantile in its design.
Here are 3 other examples of blogs that explain what a blog is:-
In my opinion, from previous experience and from the aforementioned material we have been asked to view, I think blogs can be a useful tool in teaching in many ways. They can be used, as in the case of this course, for the handing in of coursework, for receiving feedback and to monitor the progress of a student in the given subject and at the same time in the use of ICT and perhaps more importantly, for encouraging student participation, which is often slow forthcoming in the classroom. As the contents of the blog are on public view, this can also encourage the student to maintain a standard of quality of publications. Although at the same time, the whole process of learning to blog can be very time consuming and I think it is only fair that the students receive previous tuition in the classroom on the setup, design and other tools available, so as minimize the time they have to invest in the practicalities and can focus on the content to be published. Another important point to be taken into consideration, especially when concerning secondary school students, is that set forth in the example of blogging policy in open lesson TS3 'Project Work Through Blogging' from Teaching Guidelines in the European Project LTE: Guidelines and Lesson Plans. This in itself can be used to teach and guide adolescents in communication in general in private and public media.
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