martes, 10 de febrero de 2015

Analyzing the blog


Analysing the blog with the teachers who asses my research project,they realized that the blog did not look like a blog but like a repository of activities.For that reason,we began to discuss the way I could promote the development of a blog without forgetting the activities that were designed wth the objective of reinforcing and clarifing important aspects for students to write in English.

We agreed that it would be crucial that students had a space to write in English in a free way talking about things they are interested in according to the checklist they answered and real life in general,but we did not agree with the way this space would be designed in kidblog.Some ideas were that students could interact on their group´s page, on the teacher´s page and on each student´s page.Although we discussed that three pages for students to write would be too much.That is why,the teachers recommended me to visit other blogs and ask the technology teacher at the university to have more ideas about how to really promote the use of a blog that  improves and fosters students´wrting skill.I asked the teacher Claudia Acero and she told me that it woul be very important that students tested the entries in order to know if they understand them.

lunes, 9 de febrero de 2015

TJ1 Implementing the blog


On february 2nd,2015 I began the process to implement the blog with eigth graders . That day I assigned a homework to my students about what a blog is,its characteristics ,the communicative skill that is more strengthened through it, the type of documents that can be uploaded in it and the aspects that are necessary to take into account before making a comment.
Today,I told students that they had to make groups of three to work on the blog in some group activities.I recommended  my students to work with  people they feel well to work with.

Students made groups and shared information about blogs.Most of the students did not do this homework since they knew it would not be graded.I gave to my students the answers of each one of the questions they had to search in Spanish for them to read and complement what they had searched.

Finally,students read about blogs and  they discussed and complemented each one of the questions.