Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Collaborative technologies to promote literacy and lanaguage development

How would you use blogs to promote literacy and language development? If not, why not?

10 comments:

  1. This would be a useful tool to post homework to students "on line"
    This would also enable students to ask for clarification if they were not clear about the requirements of the question
    Mamsie

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  2. Could be used to send work to a class or to share resources with colleagues.

    Disadvantage: Seems a little tempremental.

    Hazel

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  3. I would get students to use a blog to reflect on what they do or learn.They could follow their peers blog and hopefully this would encourage students to discuss points or make comments. Getting any students to write outside of the college would be beneficial but students would need to carefully compose their messages and possibly proof read before submitting comments.

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  4. Blogs can be used to promote reading and discussion all which are good tools in literacy and language development. Students who are commenting, are also thinking about their responses, so must are being encouraged to synthesise the application.

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  5. Blogs are a more exciting method of completing work. A slight drawback would be if you did not start the blog you have limited access to edit the information i.e. spellings, grammar etc. It would an excellent collaboration exercise for proof reading and students could post their comments about the blog i.e. pointing out corrections etc.

    Very good idea. Need to be used in the right context.

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  7. I've already done this so let's see if this one's there!

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  8. Trying to post a comment for the second time.

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  9. A)
    1) google doc standard piece of text to learners .
    2) in little groups, learners can gradually create a glossary list based on the text.

    B) Learners can learn new vocabulary with Google doc and recycle them by adding definition
    later create sentences with those words. ocootes

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