1-Tipos+de+Blogs

WITH A BLOG YOU CAN:

> WITH A BLOG YOU CAN'T I personally find BLOGGER very easy to use. You just need a google email account, once you have it, just follow the steps.  click here to see the structure of a blog.
 * Keep a classroom diary
 * share experiences online
 * broadcast students' contributions
 * create pages for specific topics or subject areas
 * Upload links to interest pages in a safe way( dictionaries, other websites, cool tools for their projects) 
 * Upload files
 * Keep record of students' projects
 * students can't upload material, they need your email account, it's less safe.

WITH A WIKI PAGE YOU CAN

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 * Keep a classroom diary
 * <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">share experiences online
 * <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Share students' contributions
 * <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Create pages according to topics
 * <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Create projects giving instructions and following students' progress.
 * <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Assess students' work
 * <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Students can easily upload their tasks. <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">

<span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Both platforms fulfill a basic need, that is, the communication with the families. Students of a second language can find hard to share their progress with their families. On the other hand, it is hard, for the families that do not speak the target language, to understand what is going on in their children's school. Eventually, when you provide them with a blog or a wiki page, you are giving them the opportunity to actually see and listen how their children communicate in the second language; provoking hopefully a conversation where the student shares their work. <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">Finally, MOTIVATION appears as the natural consequence of this sense of completion, ability, skill and progress. So..what else can we ask for as teachers? To me, blogging, podcasting and wikispaces are three basic tools as a teacher now and could not think of working without them.

<span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">I started blogging three years ago and can not stop ! <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">here you can find some of my blogs:

<span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">- [|Tales of a grade Teacher] <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">- [|English Workshop] <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">- [|Never Too Late] <span style="color: #5437d7; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">- [|Migraciones y Mujer Magrebi]