A blog (short for weblog) is a frequently updated website that often resembles an online journal. It's so easy to create and update a blog - it requires only basic access to the Internet, and a minimum of technical know-how. Because of this, it is one of the easiest ways to publish student writing on the WWW. It's almost as easy as sending an email.
Nowadays, blogs can also display photos and some people are using them with audio and even video, but this article will concentrate on the basics, showing how a simple text-based blog can be used to great effect with your English language learners.
Since 2000, when Weblogs became widely available, a surprisingly wide variety of blog uses can
be observed in the higher education and research arenas. Researchers, academics, teachers, and students are excitedly embracing blogs. In the field of higher education in particular, where online asynchronous communication has taken place, either through email or discussion boards, blogs have been used in a number of different roles, which have both extended and in some instances replaced existing online communication tools. This has indicated the usefulness of blogs as communication and/or cognitive tools for specific disciplines, such as language learning, journalism and communication studies, academic research, law, higher education in general, and teachers’ professional development. There are many reasons why you may choose to use weblogs with students. One of the best reasons is to provide a real audience for student writing. Usually, the teacher is the only person who reads student writing, and the focus of this reading is usually on form, not content. With weblogs, students can find themselves writing for a real audience that, apart from the teacher, may include their peers, students from other classes, or even other countries, their parents, and potentially anyone with access to the Internet. There are reasons for using blogs , To provide extra reading practice for students. This reading can be produced by the teacher, other students in the same class, or, in the case of comments posted to a blog, by people from all over the world. As online student learner journals that can be read by their peers. Using a blog as a learner journal can increase the audience. To guide students to online resources appropriate for their level. We can use your tutor blog as a portal for our learners. To increase the sense of community in a class. There are sharing information about themselves and their interests, and are responding to what other students are writing. To encourage shy students to participate. To stimulate out-of-class discussion. It can also be used to promote discussion in class. To encourage a process-writing approach. Because students are writing for publication, they are usually more concerned about getting things right, and usually understand the value of rewriting more than if the only audience for their written work is the teacher. And to help build a closer relationship between students in large classes. A blog is another tool that can help bring students together .This will save you time regularly checking learner blogs to see if any of your students have posted. Around in January 2002 alone some 41,000 people created new blogs using Blogger and that there were then more than 500,000. During the year 2002 to 2006 along with growth rates quickly. Wired exulted that "nine blogs are created every minute and 2.3 content updates are posted every second". Those seeking perspective might ask how many disappear every minute and note other 'magical' statistics, eg globally there is a suicide every 40 seconds. In November 2004 PubSub claimed to track 6.4 million blogs. ล่าสุด in July 2006 the Pew Internet & American Life Project estimated that the US "blog population has grown to about 12 million American adults", some 8% of US adult internet users. The number of US blog readers was estimated as 57 million adults (39% of the US online population), Many teachers who start to use blogs find the novelty factor is enough to create student interest in starting to use them. However, blogs work best when learners get into the habit of using them. If learners are not encouraged to post to their blogs frequently, then they can quickly be abandoned. A failed experiment. Here, the teacher in the role of facilitator is vital for maintaining student interest.
Also web blog has been used to organize teaching English.because writing to the blog could be required, and it may form part of the class assessment. Students should be encouraged to post their writing homework on the blog instead of only giving it to the teacher.
The Blog appears to enrich the learning experience and provide an opportunity for learners toshift from surface to deeper levels of learning. Surface learning is characterized by the approach of the learner to complete only the minimum content necessary to meet assessment requirements,whether that is learning only what may be presented in a test or simply attending and completing activities. Conversely, deep learning is how learners stand back from an experience, seek out connections between concepts, and contextualize meaning. In general, the blog as a learning journal is a way of documenting learning and collecting information for self-analysis and reflection, it helps students nurturance a habit to study from surface to deep.
There are numerous reasons for using blogs in education, such as to provide a real audience for student writing, to provide extra reading practice for students, to increase the sense of community in a class, to encourage students to participate, to create an online portfolio of student written work .
Blogs are well suited to serve as on-line personal journals for students, particularly since they
normally enable uploading and linking of files. Language learners could use a personal blog,
linked to a course, as an electronic portfolio, showing development over time.
Blogs are easily linked and cross-linked to create larger on-line communities. Language learners can use a personal blog as an electronic portfolio that shows development over time. By publishing the blog online, the student has the opportunity of writing for readers beyond their classmates. Readers in turn can comment on what they have read. Based on the proposed possibilities for classroom application, one might expect blogs to offer many reading and writing incentives for English learning and writing because blogging places emphasis on content, the possibility of speedy feedback, the option of working with both words and images, and the ability to link one post to another. Scholars who use blogs also say that because students know they are going to have an audience by publishing their writing on the Web, they often produce higher quality work than students who write only for the teacher or for others in the class. Several scholars have reported on how they use blogs to support their
classroom instruction and have found that blogs offer many reading and writing incentives. Learner blogs are best suited for English reading and writing classes. The class blog is the result of the collaborative effort of an entire class. It can be used for posting messages, images, and links related to classroom discussion topics in English.
The students can use blogs in writing English such as 1) The Students’ facilitate to critical thinking skills .There have engaged in collaborative learning through their interactions with others which serves as a catalyst for critical thinking. Blogs foster critical thinking by encouraging students to evaluate what they read and write. Writing blogs offers students a way to improve their writing skills and encounter new ideas through interaction with other students. Blogs allow students to easily link to resources that support their assertions, and thereby encourage critical thinking. 2) Providing Examples for Students to Model and to Learn .Publishing reflective commentaries on the Internet is an effective way for students to share each other’s reviews. Not only will readership increase, when students see each other’s works, they can learn from one another, thereby motivating them to produce better reviews. 3) Affecting the Students’ Quality of Writing .The permanent nature of publishing online encourages students to pay more attention to the content and language in their blogs. And the feedback received from the various sources as well as the different types, critical and non-critical; also affects the quality of their writing.
The students also enhance the quality of their writing by adding visual representation to their
blogs. This helps to clarify concepts for the reader. Visual literacy, visual thinking, and visual
learning are concepts related to the purpose of Constructing Meaning. Multimedia research
shows that students with visual learning styles can benefit from technology with a multimedia
format. In other words, adding visual associations to their blogs helps the students express their points of views. 4) Facilitating Meaningful Learning for Students Blogging facilitates meaningful learning for the students because they explore other blogs and links to learn more about other countries, cultures, and the people who write to them. In foreign language classes, the benefits of blogs include language gains and furthering cultural understanding. Some students even use blogs exchange different culture with some foreigners. By participating as active readers of blogs, students can gain the insider’s perspective on various cultural topics, thus leading to better understanding of other cultures and what shapes them.And 5) Giving Students a Purpose for Writing Blogs increase students’ interest and ownership in learning. Students direct their own learning about topics important to them, while receiving feedback from others. Students take ownership in blogging activities by activ
บล็อก (สั้นสำหรับ weblog) เป็นเว็บไซต์ที่ปรับปรุงบ่อยที่มักจะมีลักษณะรายวันออนไลน์ เพื่อง่ายต่อการสร้าง และอัพเดบล็อก - ต้องเฉพาะพื้นฐานถึงอินเทอร์เน็ต ความรู้ทางเทคนิคอย่างน้อย ด้วยเหตุนี้ จึงเป็นหนึ่งในวิธีที่ง่ายที่สุดจะประกาศนักเรียนที่เขียนบน WWW เกือบเป็นกลายเป็นการส่งอีเมล์ได้ปัจจุบัน บล็อกยังสามารถแสดงภาพถ่าย และบางคนใช้พวกเขาวิดีโอเสียง และแม้แต่ แต่บทความนี้จะเน้นพื้นฐาน แสดงวิธีการใช้บล็อกข้อความได้ผลดีกับการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษตั้งแต่ 2000 เมื่อ Weblogs กลายเป็นพร้อมใช้งาน สามารถจู่ ๆ หลากหลายใช้บล็อกbe observed in the higher education and research arenas. Researchers, academics, teachers, and students are excitedly embracing blogs. In the field of higher education in particular, where online asynchronous communication has taken place, either through email or discussion boards, blogs have been used in a number of different roles, which have both extended and in some instances replaced existing online communication tools. This has indicated the usefulness of blogs as communication and/or cognitive tools for specific disciplines, such as language learning, journalism and communication studies, academic research, law, higher education in general, and teachers’ professional development. There are many reasons why you may choose to use weblogs with students. One of the best reasons is to provide a real audience for student writing. Usually, the teacher is the only person who reads student writing, and the focus of this reading is usually on form, not content. With weblogs, students can find themselves writing for a real audience that, apart from the teacher, may include their peers, students from other classes, or even other countries, their parents, and potentially anyone with access to the Internet. There are reasons for using blogs , To provide extra reading practice for students. This reading can be produced by the teacher, other students in the same class, or, in the case of comments posted to a blog, by people from all over the world. As online student learner journals that can be read by their peers. Using a blog as a learner journal can increase the audience. To guide students to online resources appropriate for their level. We can use your tutor blog as a portal for our learners. To increase the sense of community in a class. There are sharing information about themselves and their interests, and are responding to what other students are writing. To encourage shy students to participate. To stimulate out-of-class discussion. It can also be used to promote discussion in class. To encourage a process-writing approach. Because students are writing for publication, they are usually more concerned about getting things right, and usually understand the value of rewriting more than if the only audience for their written work is the teacher. And to help build a closer relationship between students in large classes. A blog is another tool that can help bring students together .This will save you time regularly checking learner blogs to see if any of your students have posted. Around in January 2002 alone some 41,000 people created new blogs using Blogger and that there were then more than 500,000. During the year 2002 to 2006 along with growth rates quickly. Wired exulted that "nine blogs are created every minute and 2.3 content updates are posted every second". Those seeking perspective might ask how many disappear every minute and note other 'magical' statistics, eg globally there is a suicide every 40 seconds. In November 2004 PubSub claimed to track 6.4 million blogs. ล่าสุด in July 2006 the Pew Internet & American Life Project estimated that the US "blog population has grown to about 12 million American adults", some 8% of US adult internet users. The number of US blog readers was estimated as 57 million adults (39% of the US online population), Many teachers who start to use blogs find the novelty factor is enough to create student interest in starting to use them. However, blogs work best when learners get into the habit of using them. If learners are not encouraged to post to their blogs frequently, then they can quickly be abandoned. A failed experiment. Here, the teacher in the role of facilitator is vital for maintaining student interest. นอกจากนี้ยัง ได้ใช้เว็บบล็อกเพื่อจัดระเบียบสอน English.because เขียนบล็อกอาจจะจำเป็น และมันอาจเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการประเมินผลการเรียน นักศึกษาควรจะสนับสนุนการลงบ้านผู้เขียนในบล็อกแทนการเฉพาะ ให้กับครูบล็อกเพื่อ เพิ่มประสบการณ์เรียนรู้ และให้โอกาสผู้เรียน toshift จากพื้นผิวระดับลึกเรียนรู้แล้ว การเรียนทำเฉพาะขั้นต่ำเนื้อหาจำเป็นเพื่อตอบสนองความต้องการประเมิน ว่าที่เรียนเท่านั้น ที่อาจจะนำเสนอในการทดสอบ หรือเพียงแค่เข้าร่วม และดำเนินกิจกรรมเป็นลักษณะการเรียนรู้พื้นผิว ในทางกลับกัน ลึกเรียนคือ วิธีเรียนยืนกลับจากประสบการณ์ ค้นหาการเชื่อมต่อระหว่างแนวคิด และ contextualize ความหมาย ทั่วไป บล็อกเป็นสมุดรายวันการเรียนรู้เป็นวิธีการบันทึกข้อมูลการเรียนรู้ และเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลสำหรับ self-analysis และสะท้อน ช่วยนักเรียน nurturance นิสัยศึกษาลึกจากพื้นผิว มีสาเหตุมากมายสำหรับการใช้บล็อกในการศึกษา เช่นให้ผู้ชมจริงสำหรับนักเรียนที่เขียน เพื่อให้ฝึกอ่านเพิ่มเติมสำหรับนักเรียน เพื่อเพิ่มความรู้สึกของชุมชนในชั้นเรียน เพื่อส่งเสริมให้นักเรียนมีส่วนร่วม เพื่อสร้างเป็นประวัติของนักเขียนทำงาน บล็อกที่เหมาะสมเพื่อใช้เป็นสมุดรายวันส่วนตัวที่ง่ายดายสำหรับนักเรียน โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งนับตั้งแต่พวกเขาnormally enable uploading and linking of files. Language learners could use a personal blog,linked to a course, as an electronic portfolio, showing development over time.Blogs are easily linked and cross-linked to create larger on-line communities. Language learners can use a personal blog as an electronic portfolio that shows development over time. By publishing the blog online, the student has the opportunity of writing for readers beyond their classmates. Readers in turn can comment on what they have read. Based on the proposed possibilities for classroom application, one might expect blogs to offer many reading and writing incentives for English learning and writing because blogging places emphasis on content, the possibility of speedy feedback, the option of working with both words and images, and the ability to link one post to another. Scholars who use blogs also say that because students know they are going to have an audience by publishing their writing on the Web, they often produce higher quality work than students who write only for the teacher or for others in the class. Several scholars have reported on how they use blogs to support theirclassroom instruction and have found that blogs offer many reading and writing incentives. Learner blogs are best suited for English reading and writing classes. The class blog is the result of the collaborative effort of an entire class. It can be used for posting messages, images, and links related to classroom discussion topics in English. The students can use blogs in writing English such as 1) The Students’ facilitate to critical thinking skills .There have engaged in collaborative learning through their interactions with others which serves as a catalyst for critical thinking. Blogs foster critical thinking by encouraging students to evaluate what they read and write. Writing blogs offers students a way to improve their writing skills and encounter new ideas through interaction with other students. Blogs allow students to easily link to resources that support their assertions, and thereby encourage critical thinking. 2) Providing Examples for Students to Model and to Learn .Publishing reflective commentaries on the Internet is an effective way for students to share each other’s reviews. Not only will readership increase, when students see each other’s works, they can learn from one another, thereby motivating them to produce better reviews. 3) Affecting the Students’ Quality of Writing .The permanent nature of publishing online encourages students to pay more attention to the content and language in their blogs. And the feedback received from the various sources as well as the different types, critical and non-critical; also affects the quality of their writing.The students also enhance the quality of their writing by adding visual representation to theirblogs. This helps to clarify concepts for the reader. Visual literacy, visual thinking, and visuallearning are concepts related to the purpose of Constructing Meaning. Multimedia researchshows that students with visual learning styles can benefit from technology with a multimediaformat. In other words, adding visual associations to their blogs helps the students express their points of views. 4) Facilitating Meaningful Learning for Students Blogging facilitates meaningful learning for the students because they explore other blogs and links to learn more about other countries, cultures, and the people who write to them. In foreign language classes, the benefits of blogs include language gains and furthering cultural understanding. Some students even use blogs exchange different culture with some foreigners. By participating as active readers of blogs, students can gain the insider’s perspective on various cultural topics, thus leading to better understanding of other cultures and what shapes them.And 5) Giving Students a Purpose for Writing Blogs increase students’ interest and ownership in learning. Students direct their own learning about topics important to them, while receiving feedback from others. Students take ownership in blogging activities by activ
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