The document summarizes an EFL blogging school project in Moldova from 2014-2015. It introduced 150 teachers to blogging and creating online content to enhance English language teaching. Through the project, over 30 blogs were created, some teachers moved to only online instruction, and American mentors visited regions to meet students. The project equipped teachers with skills to use online tools like blogging, engaged students in online projects, and showed how to enhance blogs with tools like Voki, Animoto and Google Polls. The objectives were to create blogs, post and edit entries, comment on other blogs, and explore blogging as a teaching tool. Trainers communicated through the project blog and used Google Hangouts for sessions.

1. Introducing The EFL
Blogging School Project
Dr Daniela Munca-Aftenev

2. EFL Blogging School for
Moldovan Teachers
Project
2014 - 2015

4. Why Blogging ?

5. PROJECT FAST FACTS
When the project started
• 25 teachers
• 15 districts
• No previous experience
with blogging
• Very limited or no
experience with Web 2.0
tools
By the end of the project
• 150 participants at the final
event in Chisinau
• Over 30 blogs were created
• Several teachers moved to
online instruction only
• American mentors visited
over 10 regions to meet
students face to face
• More than 20 online
Skype / Google Hangout
sessions

6. What is WEB 2.0 ?

7. Course description
• Equip with the necessary skills
to use online tools to enhance
English language teaching
experience,
• engage students in online
projects and raise up their
interest in studying English
using online tools,
• learn how to enhance class or
school blog using other online
tools: Voki, Animoto, Pow
Toon, Google Polls, free online
dictionaries, DVolver, Listy
Course objectives
• create a class or school blog
• post and edited entries
• comment on other blogs
• try team blogging (inviting
members)
• explore options for comment
management
• discuss the potential of
blogging as a teaching tool in
the English lesson and as a
tool for professional
development

8. FLIPPED INSTRUCTION

9. SAMPLE UNIT

14. Trainers

16. Communicating through the
Project Blog

18. Project Syllabus – Olga Morozan

20. Google Hangouts on Air

32. EFL BLOGGING SCHOOL
CONFERENCE

33. Thank you!