Blogs can be used in education in several beneficial ways according to the document: 1. Blogs provide more learning opportunities and increase exposure to authentic language. They teach higher-order thinking skills and present material to digital natives in a familiar way. 2. Blogs allow for self-directed and independent learning. They provide students with a real audience and share information with the school community. 3. When used collaboratively, blogs can promote a sense of belonging and be a way of sharing with others. They provide varied and challenging learning that incorporates multiple intelligences and digital competence.

2. WHY ??
A vision of students today

3. Easy!
Environmentally Can be done/accessed
Free friendly anywhere at anytime
Flexible!
Challenging Because
Blogs are…
A way of sharing
with others
Varied
(multiple intelligences
+ digital competence)
Fun Done collaboratively
Promoting a sense
of belonging

4. Provide more learning
opportunities.
Increase exposure
to authentic language Teach higher order
thinking skills
(see Bloom’s taxonomy)
BLOGS Present material to
CAN… digital natives in a way
that is familiar
Allow for self-directed
and
independent learning.
Provide students
with a real audience
Share information
with school community
(family, friends,
Keep a record of teacher, heads, etc)
resources and activities.

5.  Your blog can become a multimedia
coursebook.

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7. 1. Establish clear guidelines

8. 2. Choose your Layout
Plugins
fonts
clipart

9. 3. Use different pages
They give your blog a
“website” look!
Some ideas:
Our class
Who we are
Homework
E-library

10. 4. Organise your Sidebar
Make your blog’s layout as clear and easy to navigate as
possible. Make sure students know how to access
information. Use tags!!
Ho Us
w e Us
wh can ca
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11. Some possible categories
 Videos
 Links of interest
 Grammar practice
 Fun zone!
 Our blogs

12. 4.Make it collaborately
Iif you want your blog to be more interactive, allow for sts
contributions.
A- Profit from Comments
 You can disable them
 Or you can moderate them.
B- Make students take an active role
Polls, Opinions, Messages, Riddles, contributions, announcements

13. 5. Add widgets & gadgets
www.thewidgetbox.com
www.googlewidget.com
Dictionaries
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/freesearch.html
A class calendar
www.google.com/calendar
News flash
Weather
Countdowns
Search options within blog

14. 6. Make full use of the web
Some ideas:
www.Polldaddy.com
www.Wallwisher.com
www.photobabble.com
www.slideshare.com
www.webquest.org
www.maps.google.es/

15. 7. Make it a place to learn
I. Upload the material you want o use
II. Select sources for sts to look for
information
I. Organise sts work
Use Webquests

17. 8. ADD
Awards
Star Student
Helpers of the week Fun activities
Word of the day Sounds (Tongue twisters!)
Voice recordings Jokes
Maps Riddles
Messages Games
Videos Songs
Webquests/ Links
Questionnaires Powerpoint presentations
Grammar/ vocab practice Images
More…

18. 8. Become…
Digital teachers

19. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub
Categories
 Creating - designing, constructing, planning,
producing, inventing, devising, making
 Evaluating - Checking, hypothesising, critiquing,
Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring
 Analysing - Comparing, organising, deconstructing,
Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating
 Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using,
executing
 Understanding - Interpreting, Summarising, inferring,
paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining,
exemplifying
 Remembering - Recognising, listing, describing,
identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding

20. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub
Categories