Building students' self-confidence and creativity through Blogs and Scrapbooks

WORKSHOP:

Building Students' Self-confidence and Creativity through Blogs and Scrapbooks

http://blogforipagro.blogspot.com

https://sites.google.com/site/iesalahakenbilingue/blogs-curso-2010-2011

http://threeenglishkingdoms.blogspot.com

http://sangregorio5aguilardecampoo.blogspot.com

http://auroenglish.blogspot.com.es/

http://www.undergroundinglondon.com/category/blog/

http://2012na2.wordpress.com/

http://portfolioeoi.blogspot.com

http://englishforeso.wordpress.com/

http://paleeldaclil.blogspot.com

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com

http://little-bloggers.blogspot.com.es/

http://crimundo.blogspot.com.es/

http://uliaenfrances.blogspot.com.es/2010/11/trabajos-de-voki-de-3-bilingue.html

http://filosofiaparabilingues.wordpress.com/

http://paulainenglish.blogspot.com.es/

http://kidblog.org/MrJaviersClass/sofiapr/the-solar-system-9/

http://kidblog.org/MrJaviersClass/raquelam/ad-my-product/

http://kidblog.org/home/

http://ieslapinedabatxillerat.blogspot.com

http://arteixobloggers.blogspot.com

http://teachingenglishcelebrations.blogspot.com

http://kealcomenius.blogspot.com

Motivating activities

REWARDING

It allows and encourages interaction

through comments and collaboration

It mentions other blogs/pages and/or includes links to others.

It provides 2.0 materials made either by the teacher or the students and includes activities made by students.

List of plug-ins

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y9OcDAUVbJsG_N2yWiBfnk3hiWL8toysKnQpaWgsokk/edit?usp=sharing

Edublogs are blogs created for educational purposes

What is an Edublog?

Archive and support student and teacher learning

Keep in contact with parents

Provide contexts for engaging in higher-order thinking.

Teachers perceive the instructional potential of blogs as an online resource.

Edublogs are those weblogs whose main objective is to support a process of teaching and learning in an educational context.

Provide information for students

In linguistic communication

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to go far, walk together. ~ African proverb

Useful tools for sharing information and tips among co-workers

Blogs

Interactivity

Facilitate reflection, questioning by self and others, collaboration

Teaching/Learning

Educators who blog are sometimes called edubloggers

KNOWLEDGE

Process

Key Competences

Cultural and artistic

Collaborative work

• Co-authors

in processing information and use of ICT

I can manage a virtual space to....

Main features of a blog

• Access everywhere.

Really Simple Syndication RSS

Express myself

• Free

• Easy to use.

Collaborate

• Integration of other tools (web 2.0).

Think

• Links (files, images, videos, presentations, ...).

AND...

Write

• Categories, Pages, Tags.

Share

But a blog is also...

• A teaching tool: Medium for educational activities.
• Virtual meeting point for teachers.
• Reflexion and creativity site for students.
• A way to open our classroom's door to other teachers, to students´ families as well as to the education community members.

Emotional competence

El blog no es una herramienta, sino un medio cuyas funciones vamos diversificando según nuestras necesidades y nuestro ingenio.

Felipe Zayas

http://www.fzayas.com/darlealalengua/?p=424

Empathy

Self-consciousness

Self-regulation

Socialization

- More recently "multi-author blogs" have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors.

- A majority are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even messages, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

- Blogging can be seen as a form of social networking. Indeed, bloggers do not only produce content to post on their blogs, but also build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.

A blog is…

ICT tools to develop Gardner's intelligencies

A blog is…

- A web Publishing tool that facilitates the posting of content by non-technical users.

- Consisting of discrete entries ("posts")

- Typically displayed in reverse chronological order.

- Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often were themed on a single subject.

A blog?

• Do I need a blog?
• What do I need a blog for?
• What can I do with a blog?
• How can blogs enhance students' creativity and increase self-steem?

OUTLINE:

- What is a blog?

- What is a blog used for?

- Educative blogs:

- Examples from users.

- Plug-ins for blogs.

-Workshop:

- Creating a blog in BLOGGER

- Settings: permissions for edition and publication, comments...

- Elaborate contents collaboratively.

Pilar Torres Caño

CEP de Córdoba

Ester Molina Robles

CETA President

VÍDEOS: VIMEO

VIDEOS: YOUTUBE

(YouTube Education)

Music Files: GOEAR

http://www.goear.com

In GOEAR you will be able to listen to music on line freely, upload your songs (MP3), create your playlists, see lyrics and score and embed music and playlists in your blog

http://vimeo.com

Embedded video:

II CANTALENGUAS

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/premios-ii-concurso-cantalenguas.html

Embedding code

Embedded video:

Learning an teaching English celebrations

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/actualizacion-en-el-uso-de-la-web-20-en.html

Podcasts (easy)

http://youtube.com/education

http://vocaroo.com/

Photo Albums with music: PHOTOPEACH

- Voice recording Free service

- No register

- No login

- Microphone

- Email/embed

Embedded Photopeach:

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/v-jornada-provincial-de-escuelas.html

http://photopeach.com/

Presentations: Slideshare

PHOTO ALBUM: PICASA

Plug-ins for blogs

Embeded in the blog: http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/david-marsh-seminario-interactivo-en-el.html

http://www.slideshare.net

Embedded Picasa Album:

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/david-marsh-added-value-of-clil-in.html

http://picasaweb.google.com

All kind of documents : SCRIBD

http://scribd.com

SPEAKING AVATARS: VOKI

Embedded in the blog: http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/guia-informativa-para-centros-de.html

http://www.voki.com/

How to create a VOKI (Videotutorial):

Embedded voki:

http://uliaenfrances.blogspot.com.es/2010/11/trabajos-de-voki-de-3-bilingue.html

Publications: ISSUU

Videos,

Music,

Mind maps,

Images,

Documents,

Presentations

Podcasts

Photoalbums

Etc ...

http://issuu.com

Embedded in the blog:

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/guia-para-estudiar-trabajar-o-viajar.html

Images: FlickrCC

Flash Presentations: PREZI

http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net

Repository of images and sounds CNICE: http://recursostic.educacion.es/bancoimagenes/web/

How to look for freely licensed images on Google:

http://www.wikihow.com/Look-for-Freely-Licensed-Images-on-Google

http://prezi.com

Embedded in the blog:

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2010/11/presentacion-del-ii-concurso.html

Creative Commons license Search Engine

POSTERS

http://www.glogster.com/

http://search.creativecommons.org/

RESOURCES

CEIP CARLOS III + IES NUEVAS POBLACIONES + IES EL SAUCE

THE ORIGIN

Tutorial

http://charlesnw.hostoi.com/index.php

Examples embedded on a blog:

http://4esofrancesiesalhaken.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/les-voyageurs-romantiques.html

http://www.brainshark.com

LET´S GIVE IT A CHANCE!

It will be a successful work.

LINKS FOR SCRAPBOOKS

http://myscrapbook.lacoctelera.net/

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/centros-tic/21601081/helvia/aula/archivos/repositorio/0/158/manual_Myscrapbook.pdf

And Remember....

All embedded codes are HTML.

To embed them in our blog, we hit on HTML

Collaborative blogs

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to go far, walk together. ~ African proverb

Other Scrapbooks:

http://www.ebarrios.net/1213/gloria_fuertes/

http://www.ebarrios.net/1112/librovirtual/

http://iescavaleri.com/libro2012/

http://www.apuntesdelengua.com/ourscrapbook41/index.php

INSTRUCTIONS TO START

Interactivity

How can I access my blog?

http://blogger.com

Final suggestions...

Individual blogs

Now you can begin to post to your blog...

DO IT YOURSELF!!

Write your Google account's user name and password

What can I do now?

You can have more than a blog with the same account

Students'

Chapters & Topics

http://charlesnw.hostoi.com/index.php

• Creating and managing a blog is not difficult.

• Nothing is impossible.

• If we want, we can!!

• When you get lost, ask for help.

• The hardest thing is to start.

• Be constant, update periodically your blog and be faithful to your style.

• Engage your students to interact in the blog and/or to have their own blogs.

• Publish, modify and delete posts.
• Check settings (permissions, gadgets, etc...)
• Change blog's template.
• Customize your blog.
• Manage files
• Manage users and profiles
• Manage comments

ETC...

Collaborative work

Create a new blog

Think of a name for your blog

Title

Address

Template

http://englishloscalifas.mipropia.com/

Write the name of your blog: .... .blogspot.com

Where from??

Choose the template

SCRAPBOOKS

Create your blog

SETTINGS

Create a blog

Let's create a blog

in Blogger

Settings... Basic

See you in our blogs!!

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com

pilarcep@gmail.com

ptorresc

Types of edublogs...

And in our scrapbooks!!

http://englishloscalifas.mipropia.com/

mester123@gmail.com

Individual blogs

Let's work collaboratively on a blog

Create a google account

Teachers'

Settings... Posts and Comments

Data repository

http://blogworkshoptesol.blogspot.com

Institution blog

Teacher's blog

Class blog

Students' blog

Project blog

Activities

Announcing

Promoting

Advertising

Creativity

Autonomy

Reflection

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HOME PAGE

http://blogger.com

Create a google account if you do not have one

CONS

PROS

Interaction

It can be used by the teacher in the classroom as it provides significant activities and meaningful tasks

Autonomous

reflection

Collaborative work

Acquisition of

correction

mechanism

Time consuming

Selection/Adaptation

Updating

Building their

confidence

TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL BLOG

Promoting creativity and critical thinking skills

Meaningful tasks

It gives the teacher the chance to think about their teaching practice