Monday, 11 January 2010

5 A journey to find my own voice

Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to my first post...
To be honest, I've never thought that creating a blog is such an easy step. However, trying to write something worth in my blog was not as easy as I assumed. The main problem I encountered was how to begin writing my personal blog? After sitting in front of the computer and brainstorming for hours, I found, to my surprise, that writing about my blog was a great pleasure...
In my opinion, the main question to be asked here is "How will I and my students benefit from blogging?"
At the very beginning many ideas started to form in my mind. For instance, teachers can store videos, podcasts, music and other multimedia files so that the students can use them in the process of learning English. Therefore, learning might occur as a natural process.
As a second idea, this blog might function as a kind of dialogue journal which might help to establish a communicative environment in the classroom. Besides, it can provide an opportunity for my students to use authentic language through interactions with the teacher.
However, one thing I am sure is that this blog will teach me to reflect my learning experiences as well as share good practice with you.
I would be willing to continue to write my blog where time will allow; however, for the time being I should stop writing and continue reading about blogging for ELT.

Please feel free to write to me! I'll be happy to hear from you (suggestions/feedback welcome!)
Posted by GiGi at 10:30 . .

5 comments:

  1. Amjad12 January 2010 at 05:21

    Congratulations Gülsen on having your blog ready for e-learning. I agree with your point that this blog can "establish a communicative environment." You could turn your blog into an auditroy/aural excercising place and/or into an online quizzing webpage. I like your aspiring spirit, go forward Gülsen !

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  2. Nina14 January 2010 at 07:10

    Hi Gülsen,

    Congratulations on your blog. You have great ideas about using blogs with students. It is so nice to be able to communicate with each other in this way, and hear other people's views and ideas. Thank you.

    Nina

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  3. manana14 January 2010 at 20:06

    Hi Gulsen,

    Congratulations!

    Indeed blogging gives a teacher so many
    possibilities to teach better and make the virtual classroom a 'better place to live in'. Creating interactive journals you have mentioned can be one way to achieve this..

    Manana

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  4. Andreja15 January 2010 at 02:33

    Hello Gülsen,

    Now that you have set up this wonderful blog, it is great that you already have so many ideas about how you could use it in future with your students. For the time being, I am very glad we can communicate through it and benefit from sharing. I look forward to your posts!

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  5. Márcia Maria17 January 2010 at 15:08

    Hi Gülsen,
    Congratulations for your blog! The layout itself shows a little of your spirit - a mix of ideas!
    Great ideas about the use o blog in class, I am sure by the end of the course we will have zillions of ideas, for the benefits of our students!
    I also think that, besides developing ideas and plans for the use of blogs in class, we have to try to turn this into an effective way of helping our students learn, that is, make them participate actively in the process of creating the blog and maintaining it alive. I hope we can share more ideas about it later!

    Thanks,

    Márcia - Brazil

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