Collaboration presented at the XVth Sedifrales Rosario
PATH 2: EDUCATIONAL
ICTs and teaching / learning of the ELF
Blogs are increasingly popular. And what are their young leading producers and consumers
Indeed, France, on the Internet, one in two has a blog. These are young people between 12 and 17% connectés.89 most of them have an Internet connection at home.
France is the largest producer of blogs adolescents. The largest platform hosting, Skyrock Blog, has 18 million blogs. It would create 15,000 per day. (Source Crédoc June 2008)
In Argentina we create a virtual diary per minute.
However, educational blogs are not widely used. Educators analyze their characteristics and their potential for suggesting how to profit from it.
If you want to take into account the interest of young people this way and actional perspective advocated by the CEF (Common European Framework of Reference) for foreign languages, interest in the use of blogs in trade between teachers, students and community of learners is obvious. (European Framework of Reference for learning and teaching Languages, 1996)
But what is a blog?
In the magazine article "The French in the world" No. 351, whose title is "From the Diary of social networks," the Office of the Quebec French Language defines blog as "a web site with the form of a diary, dated, in reverse chronological content (chronologically) and regularly updated, where users can communicate ideas and feelings on a variety of subjects, including publishing, at its option, the informative texts or intimate, usually short, sometimes fortified hyperlinks, which require input from the player. "(page 23).
The blog responds, above all, a need to exist, but exist on the Internet is not sufficient, it must be recognized and integrated into a virtual community.
"Blogging is not only about ourselves, our lives, give their opinion, it is mainly interact with other users, create something more, exchange and share what has been created." (LWF)
Why a blog in a language class?
CERC defines what is called communicative and actional perspective, which puts on the front the scene of social action, joint action to achieve a shared goal in a specific context.
blogs that spirit of youth. They provide a context for this perspective. Without doubt, there is the social need of man to be part of a group. And a virtual community is having an objective and common interests. Building
collectively experience, sharing emotions, it's a quest worth.
The success of blogs is due to a very simple recipe: they are easy to create, use and offer the possibility of arriving quickly to have a website where those who wish to interact.
What kind of educational blogs can I create? A blog for students? Professor? Cooperative or personal blogs?
A teacher's blog can be used to insert text, images, video and sound, and one of the most used. The objective is to develop and transmit information. Many teachers use it to create an educational site, to offer additional exercises, interactive self-corrective or online, they describe how to use technology in their courses.
Others used it to develop interdisciplinary projects, share worksheets, readings, or comment on activities that may result of interest to other colleagues. They have the advantage of being easier to create a website, because we do not need deep knowledge of computer.
In addition, professional blog can reflect and share the thoughts of the teacher. It can serve as a support to return to his teaching experiences, comment on an article on teaching, describe what works or not in his class. In this context, it allows the author the benefit of the views of colleagues who are interested in same subjects that could feed its reflections with comments or additional written. In this case, the blog would be an effective way to create a knowledge network.
A professional blog can be used to support a research or management of a project. Through the chronological classification of items, it can tell the stages of searching for a school project.
In the classroom, the teacher can develop a space for consultation and support for students. It can provide information on the course, extend the working class, as long as students can access home and work on content is most difficult to remember, online activities, tips on reading to achieve, on a deeper subject, etc..
We may also use it as a space where students carry out their duties, for example, a rally on the Internet on a given topic, vocabulary activities, games for grammar, etc..
In my case, I created my personal blog with the aim to share my experiences of class, introduce the research and communications for days, courses and conferences in which I participated. I named my blog "Fun School" , Since teaching is for me an activity that gives me much pleasure, and that as a teacher I feel I can best develop my skills.
You can browse this blog http://www.liliaprof.blogspot.com/ .
As you can see, I have introduced classroom experiences, such as a global simulation that I made with students from the Normal School, projects as "Multilingualism in stages," an experience that put into practice in our town when the French would disappear as a result of the Federal Education Act, inter-disciplinary projects as "One tries another language?", done with a colleague of English. I also introduced
lyrics I use in my classes and video clips downloaded from you tube as well as worksheets on various topics which colleagues can use it.
I added photos of my trips to Argentina, thinking that the sphere of the blog is not limited to our country and that of colleagues around the world would know us by these images.
In addition, I put the titles of French films that I really liked to suggest to those who love film to see them.
As to the class blog for students, is the result of collaborative work. It can be used to introduce the activities performed (student work, production of joint activities, the class history, among others)
can use it as a meeting place for students to interact by suggesting topics for discussion, that enable more timid to free speech and develop team spirit, not just in the classroom, also outside.
For example, there may be a virtual exchange between classes, correspondence, tape comic, experience of class, etc..
With this goal we created
http://www.lecoindufrancais-lecoindufrancais.blogspot.com/ .
We started working in 2008 with a group of students from the second year of the Normal School. Participants, a group of 8 students began by choosing the name of the blog. Then they introduced themselves individually and as a group. A few days later, we went for a ride from the city to take photos and we prepared a dossier on our city.
Once posted some work, we invited other French courses at the see and participate in building the blog. Students in the third year added the links to see videos of songs we had learned in class directly from YouTube, as well as surveys, animations and pictures of France on the presentation.
few days later, we sent an invitation to colleagues to see it and they come join us, and we got some answers and comments we have answered in class.
From that moment, the blog has left the realm of the Normal School to add a work made by students from El Salvador Colleague.
Since that day, the two schools where I work, participate in building the blog.
Here are some pictures where you can observe the work and recently posted the archive of the blog since June 2008, date of birth. Limits
blogs
When we take the decision to embark on the adventure, consider a series of difficulties and needs.
First, you need a connection to the Internet. Many institutions have one, and teachers can use them taking into account the availability schedule.
The ideal is that each student can have his machine, but if the groups are numerous, they can share one to two.
Second, we must decide on what program we will create the blog. There are ways to do it for free, thanks to the publishers. Just have some knowledge of word processing and research in the computer, since the look of the blog is already determined and the creation is done quickly.
example on Google, there are Blogger (http / / www.blogger.com)
But there are many vendors that offer this kind of service.
Thirdly, the motivation of students. The novelty is not enough to arouse in learners a desire to use them. Blogs work so students become accustomed to using them. If they are not motivated to update them frequently, they are likely to lose interest. Therefore it will take a few precautions, such as encouraging them to read reviews and to meet their demand to participate in food blog, suggesting activities, making this event a class assignment. The teacher will try to sensitize students to issues of copyright and image and text content is brought into line.
In the case of our blog entries are monitored by the group creator, it is they who have the password. Therefore
collaborations should be sent to the email address of the blog and post in the classroom with the group, they are added as new entries.
How to evaluate?
1) self-evaluation
2) evaluation by Professor
3) the correction by the other students
4) Correction by other users. Conclusion
To create a blog should not be an expert, just have the need to innovate, be prepared to use new technology to attempt it. Adolescents are resourceful, and they are ultimately the actors. It should only guide them and let them act.
I just got the news that our blog has been chosen by TV5 Monde among the best blogs of the week in the Teachers category and we were given the label TV5 International. Yet another reason to encourage students and teachers also engage in this challenge.
ICTs and teaching / learning of the ELF
Blogs are increasingly popular. And what are their young leading producers and consumers
Indeed, France, on the Internet, one in two has a blog. These are young people between 12 and 17% connectés.89 most of them have an Internet connection at home.
France is the largest producer of blogs adolescents. The largest platform hosting, Skyrock Blog, has 18 million blogs. It would create 15,000 per day. (Source Crédoc June 2008)
In Argentina we create a virtual diary per minute.
However, educational blogs are not widely used. Educators analyze their characteristics and their potential for suggesting how to profit from it.
If you want to take into account the interest of young people this way and actional perspective advocated by the CEF (Common European Framework of Reference) for foreign languages, interest in the use of blogs in trade between teachers, students and community of learners is obvious. (European Framework of Reference for learning and teaching Languages, 1996)
But what is a blog?
In the magazine article "The French in the world" No. 351, whose title is "From the Diary of social networks," the Office of the Quebec French Language defines blog as "a web site with the form of a diary, dated, in reverse chronological content (chronologically) and regularly updated, where users can communicate ideas and feelings on a variety of subjects, including publishing, at its option, the informative texts or intimate, usually short, sometimes fortified hyperlinks, which require input from the player. "(page 23).
The blog responds, above all, a need to exist, but exist on the Internet is not sufficient, it must be recognized and integrated into a virtual community.
"Blogging is not only about ourselves, our lives, give their opinion, it is mainly interact with other users, create something more, exchange and share what has been created." (LWF)
Why a blog in a language class?
CERC defines what is called communicative and actional perspective, which puts on the front the scene of social action, joint action to achieve a shared goal in a specific context.
blogs that spirit of youth. They provide a context for this perspective. Without doubt, there is the social need of man to be part of a group. And a virtual community is having an objective and common interests. Building
collectively experience, sharing emotions, it's a quest worth.
The success of blogs is due to a very simple recipe: they are easy to create, use and offer the possibility of arriving quickly to have a website where those who wish to interact.
What kind of educational blogs can I create? A blog for students? Professor? Cooperative or personal blogs?
A teacher's blog can be used to insert text, images, video and sound, and one of the most used. The objective is to develop and transmit information. Many teachers use it to create an educational site, to offer additional exercises, interactive self-corrective or online, they describe how to use technology in their courses.
Others used it to develop interdisciplinary projects, share worksheets, readings, or comment on activities that may result of interest to other colleagues. They have the advantage of being easier to create a website, because we do not need deep knowledge of computer.
In addition, professional blog can reflect and share the thoughts of the teacher. It can serve as a support to return to his teaching experiences, comment on an article on teaching, describe what works or not in his class. In this context, it allows the author the benefit of the views of colleagues who are interested in same subjects that could feed its reflections with comments or additional written. In this case, the blog would be an effective way to create a knowledge network.
A professional blog can be used to support a research or management of a project. Through the chronological classification of items, it can tell the stages of searching for a school project.
In the classroom, the teacher can develop a space for consultation and support for students. It can provide information on the course, extend the working class, as long as students can access home and work on content is most difficult to remember, online activities, tips on reading to achieve, on a deeper subject, etc..
We may also use it as a space where students carry out their duties, for example, a rally on the Internet on a given topic, vocabulary activities, games for grammar, etc..
In my case, I created my personal blog with the aim to share my experiences of class, introduce the research and communications for days, courses and conferences in which I participated. I named my blog "Fun School" , Since teaching is for me an activity that gives me much pleasure, and that as a teacher I feel I can best develop my skills.
You can browse this blog http://www.liliaprof.blogspot.com/ .
As you can see, I have introduced classroom experiences, such as a global simulation that I made with students from the Normal School, projects as "Multilingualism in stages," an experience that put into practice in our town when the French would disappear as a result of the Federal Education Act, inter-disciplinary projects as "One tries another language?", done with a colleague of English. I also introduced
lyrics I use in my classes and video clips downloaded from you tube as well as worksheets on various topics which colleagues can use it.
I added photos of my trips to Argentina, thinking that the sphere of the blog is not limited to our country and that of colleagues around the world would know us by these images.
In addition, I put the titles of French films that I really liked to suggest to those who love film to see them.
As to the class blog for students, is the result of collaborative work. It can be used to introduce the activities performed (student work, production of joint activities, the class history, among others)
can use it as a meeting place for students to interact by suggesting topics for discussion, that enable more timid to free speech and develop team spirit, not just in the classroom, also outside.
For example, there may be a virtual exchange between classes, correspondence, tape comic, experience of class, etc..
With this goal we created
http://www.lecoindufrancais-lecoindufrancais.blogspot.com/ .
We started working in 2008 with a group of students from the second year of the Normal School. Participants, a group of 8 students began by choosing the name of the blog. Then they introduced themselves individually and as a group. A few days later, we went for a ride from the city to take photos and we prepared a dossier on our city.
Once posted some work, we invited other French courses at the see and participate in building the blog. Students in the third year added the links to see videos of songs we had learned in class directly from YouTube, as well as surveys, animations and pictures of France on the presentation.
few days later, we sent an invitation to colleagues to see it and they come join us, and we got some answers and comments we have answered in class.
From that moment, the blog has left the realm of the Normal School to add a work made by students from El Salvador Colleague.
Since that day, the two schools where I work, participate in building the blog.
Here are some pictures where you can observe the work and recently posted the archive of the blog since June 2008, date of birth. Limits
blogs
When we take the decision to embark on the adventure, consider a series of difficulties and needs.
First, you need a connection to the Internet. Many institutions have one, and teachers can use them taking into account the availability schedule.
The ideal is that each student can have his machine, but if the groups are numerous, they can share one to two.
Second, we must decide on what program we will create the blog. There are ways to do it for free, thanks to the publishers. Just have some knowledge of word processing and research in the computer, since the look of the blog is already determined and the creation is done quickly.
example on Google, there are Blogger (http / / www.blogger.com)
But there are many vendors that offer this kind of service.
Thirdly, the motivation of students. The novelty is not enough to arouse in learners a desire to use them. Blogs work so students become accustomed to using them. If they are not motivated to update them frequently, they are likely to lose interest. Therefore it will take a few precautions, such as encouraging them to read reviews and to meet their demand to participate in food blog, suggesting activities, making this event a class assignment. The teacher will try to sensitize students to issues of copyright and image and text content is brought into line.
In the case of our blog entries are monitored by the group creator, it is they who have the password. Therefore
collaborations should be sent to the email address of the blog and post in the classroom with the group, they are added as new entries.
How to evaluate?
1) self-evaluation
2) evaluation by Professor
3) the correction by the other students
4) Correction by other users. Conclusion
To create a blog should not be an expert, just have the need to innovate, be prepared to use new technology to attempt it. Adolescents are resourceful, and they are ultimately the actors. It should only guide them and let them act.
I just got the news that our blog has been chosen by TV5 Monde among the best blogs of the week in the Teachers category and we were given the label TV5 International. Yet another reason to encourage students and teachers also engage in this challenge.
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