Blogging in ELT

• Students write and write and write and write - this is good.
  
• Lot of reading for tcr to monitor => what if tcrs don't => errors can fossilize.
  
• Peer Correction: sts correct each others
  
• Considerable value in producing language regardless of errors.
  
• How dangerous are mistakes? depends on type of error.
  
• Not as communicative as we would like to think.
  Cyber bullying
  

In what situations would we do blogging?
General reflections on life and school and learning and people we hate etc.
Project work

Our preference however is for a website and now that Google has made this easy, goodbye blogs.

Edit central

Edit central includes a field where you can paste a text and obtain readability statistics about it.

The EU & ICT

European Commission - Education & Training - lifelong learning programme - Key Activity 3: Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)

At the bottom of this page, see the linked pdf "Compendium of Good Practice Cases of e-learning"

Embedding a Google docs calendar

Editting an existing questionnaire

As reported yesterday, I couldn't find where or how. After scouring HELP, the answer turns out to be:

1. Open the spreadsheet version in the Google docs menu
2. Go to the Form menu and choose Edit at the top
3. At the bottom of the screen that appears, you see the URL for the questionnaire version

It's a bit roundabout - how about some options in the Menu? I don't want to go to the spreadsheet necessarily, but maybe now that I know this, I'll forget these woes.

Embedding a slideshow from Picasa - experiment

The embedding code can go into other webpages etc. such as those created in Kompozer.

Embedding a Google docs questionnaire - demo

How great is this tool for making questionnaires!

At the time of writing, I can't see how to edit an existing questionnaire. This means that there are other facilities that can't be acccessed such as Viewing a summary of the results. Clicking on its listing in the Google docs list takes you to the spread sheet of results. Help doesn't exist yet for Forms, AFAIK. So saving the URL where it's created seems to be the only way. Hopefully this will soon be fixed. It's BETA, it's free and it's great.

Interesting how the text doesn't wrap to fit the 'theme' of this blog.
Interesting that when I changed the theme of the questionnaire, it wasn't necessary to re-embed the code in this blog.

Feel free to complete it. I'd be pleased.

Embedding a Google docs presentation

LORD BYRON & HIS POEM: SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY is a presentation made by an ex-student and made in Google docs. It was included in this blog as a demo.

Use a short video: turn the sound off

Sperrholzpiraten/Plywoodpirates (extract) StopMotion Animation from Stefan Schomerus on Vimeo.

Use a short video

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

English Language Skills Testing

CAELT : English Language Skills Testing: Online tests - Standards-based, available, accessible, flexible solutions for individuals and organizations