How to maintain an EFL Blog alive, EFL Blogging School Moldova. Emma Matreniuc

1. Hints for Busy Teachers
How to Maintain Your Blog Alive.
Emma Matreniuc
EFL Instructor MA in Philology

2. BLOG
COMMUNICATING and SHARING
• Blog (web log) - it is a network
journal, journal of events ;
• Its main content: regularly added
notes, commentaries,pictures,
images;
• 1.Entertainment (mothers,
housekeepers)
• 2. Communcative (to share,to talk)
• 3. For self-presentation (as a diary)
• 4.For getting together and keep social
network (to support each other, to
keep friendship, be better
colleagues);
• 5.For memoirs (like paper diary/self-
communication)
• 6. For self-development and
reflection (one can create his/her
own image and structure personal
thoughts

3. BLOG – a new approach in Teaching
• Teaching with Blog
becomes important
• Every Teacher can have
a Blog

4. Why should we maintain the Blog alive
Students:
• Do not fulfill the
assignments;
• Do not leave comments
do not have time, i-net;
• Complain on too much
hometask to do;
Teachers=colleagues:
• Have no time to access
your Blog;
• Are afraid to “enter”your
Blog;
• Do not know how to
navigate and walk through
your Blog;
• Are unaware or have no
idea how useful it is;
•

5. What is Good and How can we
Motivate
• Blog community
• Collaborate
• Blog buddies
• Commenting=friendship
• Sharing opinions
• Introduce students to a
new range of personal
and educational benefits

6. Teacher’s Blog Makes Activity
Interesting and Diversed
What is Good
• It makes the process of acquiring
the subject easier , more
comprehensive for
children/students/adults;
• It gets together Teachers and
Students/ Teachers and Parents;
• It shares positive experiences of
other teachers; • It initiates positive communication;
• It brings new information from
various resources;
• It gives additional materials to
students;
• Blog incorporates several subjects
and makes English an
interdisciplinarian lesson;

7. Eye-catchy Blog Pages

9. Colors,Images,Words

10. Be very clear from the very first sight when one accesses or
opens it (be it your student, colleague or any other visitor);
• The pages and rubrics you form
should look comprehensively and
structured;
• The words that you use to entitle
one or another page should
reflect exactly what it comprises;
• Each Blog should have a design
that will be pleasant for the
reader’s eye and correspond the
teaching aims;
• The words, phrases and images
you use should be eye-catchy and
inspiring;
• You should necessarily follow
Blog Etiquette Tips

11. More Blog Help Motivation
• Your Teacher’s blog should have all the facilities for your
students ( a dictionary on your page, a calendar, an
additional tutorial if needed, data of the task, a simple and
detailed explanation for students with special needs);
• The Assignments that you create should be clearly structured
so that your students could understand the Task, especially
those who missed the class;
Each Instruction should be explained simply and
consequently;
• Provide the examples and enough facility
information for the topics you consider to be the
most difficult ones;
• Use the information (audio, video, any on-line
techniques) that is relevant for your students’
language level and development;
• Mind the aims of the Teacher’s Blog when you
create a Task or organize an activity: to develop
certain skills and abilities;
• Involve all the students from your classes through
the tasks you create, so that they could share the
experience with each other and peer educate
themselves;
• Be open to reflect and respond to all their
questions;
https://aculovrodica.wordpress.com/-- the UK video
http://alionabragaru.weebly.com/assignments
-- different houses
http://emmamatreniuc.weebly.com/themes-for-
english-classes/december-travelling-
dreams#comments-- my animoto
http://emmamatreniuc.weebly.com/themes-for-
english-classes/archives/11-2014 -- The Happy Prince
http://themodernscholar.weebly.com/-- past cont
tense
http://myblogclass.weebly.com/
--Olesea “Our work,2nd form, Days of the week”

12. Blog and Inclusive Education
• Differentiated
Instruction
• Resource Center
• Bigger letters,louder
volume in headphones,
more vivid image on the
screen, more time at
home to get ready

13. Blogs for Different children

14. Blog lives in Collaboration between
Teachers
• SHARING EXPERIENCE
• Resources,materials,topics,collaboration,
approaches

15. Blog– incorporation of Teaching Work
and Creativity
• Rodelia Aculov “Mihai Eminscu” Lyceum
https://aculovrodica.wordpress.com/
• Luminița Tiuliuliuc “Mihai Eminescu” Lyceum
http://themodernscholar.weebly.com/
• Nadia Crușnevschi "Mihai Eminescu“ College
http://follownadia.weebly.com/
• Maria Ionesi “Gaudeamus” Lyceum
http://mariaionesi.weebly.com/the-10th-and-11th-
forms
• Olesea Chihai Gymnasium ,,Gura Căinarului’’,
http://myblogclass.weebly.com/
• Nicoleta VORONIUC "Valeriu Topala" Lyceum
http://classroomblogzabriceni.weebly.com/

16. Easy Video On-line Help
• http://www.elcivics.com/statue_liberty_p1.html
• https://voicethread.com/about/library/Compari
ng_JS_Bach_and_Paul_McCartney_Constance_
Vidor/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liyFKUFCQn
o --a good essay in 5 points
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhOJZwLG8
C4 -- song about paragraph essay
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc80eaDcq
5E ---Adam English “to say Want”
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IFDuhdB2
Hk- -- Adam writing Paragraphs

17. Thank you for participation!
Good Luck in Your Blog Journey !!!