Website 3
http://hickstro.org/
- On this website, we can read about Digital Writing and Digital Teaching, a blog written by Troy Hicks, a doctoral student in Teacher Education at Michigan State and professional development coordinator for a Red Cedar Writing Project.
- A variety of issues related to teaching writing with new media are explored. Different means of using modern technology into teaching are introduced, including how to use blog for peer review in the process writing instruction and how to encourage collaborative work among students. Educators can share ideas related to teaching and read about activities or appropriate topics to recommend for students to write.
- It's a good website for educators as well as for language learners who are to develop writing and reading via modern technology. What is of significance for me is that I can learn about the use of blog for peer review in process writing instruction, which is a new method and which will arouse learners' interest in writing.
Website 2
http://www.englishclub.com/webguide/Writing/index.htm
- ESL resourses can be found in this website for both English instructors and learners. This English club was founded in 1997 by Josef Essberger from Cambridge, England.
- As an instructor intending to integrate blog into writing instruction, I am especially impressed by the different writing resources here. To effectively integrate blog into teaching and develop our learners' interest in it, we need to find topics for students to write about and we need to involve the students in reading some essays and then practise writing by posting. Here are many such kind of topics and essays for our reference.
- In addition to the information related to my webography topic, there are actually more sections in this website such as secrets for ESL learners or ESL forum and games to engage learners. Everything is free here and learners can learn and enjoy the process.
Website 1
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/huffaker/index.html
- Here we can get access to "the educated blogger: Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom" by David Huffaker. David Huffaker holds a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University, and begins a Doctoral program in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University in Fall 2004.
- This paper explores the role of blogs in classroom settings as well as the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning. The paper also reviews examples of blogs in practice.
- Using the Internet to communicate allows an author to use verbal literacy while extending digital fluency. Blogs promote self–expression, a place where the author can develop highly personalized content. By blogging, learners are able to develop interests in writing which is exactly what I am intended to do. Many such writings can be found on this website.
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Blogs can be effectively used by teachers to arouse students' interest in writing. Students will be better motivated by writing on their blogs due to the real readers, and they may have more opportunities to improve their writing skills by the real-time feedback from the readers.
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