EFL blogging communities in Japan

2. Why don’t writing classes work?

3. How can we make writing classes more like speaking classes? Community Speaking classes Writing classes CMC Community

4. Communities are built on identity Identity faces clothes accessories body language gestures Community Speaking classes Writing classes CMC Oral Communication ???

5. Which one tells us more?

8. A weblog is…

10. blog as an extension of personality

11. Writing as experience

12. Writing as exercise Juppun wa juubun 十分は 十分

13. Self identity and self evaluation

14. Self identity and self evaluation

16. blogs and shared experience

17. avatars

18. Roll your own template

21. underlying personality

24. Roll your own web: blogrings, shared topics

25. Book reviews

26. Niche topics

27. Blog tag to encourage inter-blog linking I went to the shops and bought some apples. I went to the shops and bought some apples, and a book.

28. blogs and shared experience

29. Base score is number of words. Community-enhancing behaviour brings a large bonus .

30. Make it easy to find other students’ blogs!

31. Updated content: RSS/webfeeds Webfeed of a single site Webfeeds combined

32. Single class webfeed

33. Existing class feeds

35. WinK (Weblogging in Kumamoto)

36. Books

38. WinK Hits!

39. Assistant editors/writers

40. What could it be?

41. Two models

43. The blogging community

44. That’s all from us, folks! www.rikiwiki.net/jalt2006 [email_address] [email_address] Kumamoto Gakuen University Prefectural University of Kumamoto