Showing posts with label WELL2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WELL2. Show all posts

Welcome to WELL II 2012!

9:15 AM Carla Raguseo 19 comments

My name is Carla Raguseo and I’m the online tutor and designer of the WELL course. I started integrating blogs and wikis into my classes seven years ago and my teaching has never been the same since then. They say that "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.", right?  Together we’ll discover how these tools can help us boost motivation and develop learning autonomy in our students within a content-based approach to language learning.

Our WELL blog is one of the three online spaces we will use throughout the course to share experiences and expand our learning networks. On the sidebar, you’ll find the blogs that were created by other EFL teachers in previous courses. Check them out!

I'd like to invite you to introduce yourselves and share your experiences with blogs and wikis as well as your expectations for this course. Also, take your time to look around and make yourselves at home!
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Goodbye WELL 2 - 2011

9:19 PM Carla Raguseo 9 comments

WELL 2 on Prezi


Dear WELL teachers,

During these frour weeks we've explored and tried to unveil the potential of blogs and wikis for the EFL classroom. It's been amazing to share your expectations, fears and discoveries!

As I've said before, the "formal" process may have come to an end, but our connections will remain because we own the spaces we have built together!

Let's keep developing our learning networks on the web!

Love,

Carla
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Budding Blogs

8:58 PM Carla Raguseo 1 comments
After our blogging week at WELL 2, it's exciting to see new blogs coming to life and others "re awakening" in the blogosphere.  I see how carefully you've all chosen the templates to transmit the right atmosphere as well as images and videos that describe your mood, your fears, your interests and expectations for your brand new spot on the web.

May this be the beginning of a meaningful blogging journey!

Enjoy everybody's 5 reasons!



Image: WELL blog by Websites as graphs 

Debora's 5 reasons Why I'd like to try EFL blogging
Guillermina's 5 reasons why EFL blogging is a good idea
Romina's 5 reasons why EFL blogging is a good idea
Sandra's why I'd like to try EFL blogging
Cecilia's 5 reasons
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Brave New WELL Bloggers

12:55 PM Carla Raguseo 2 comments
After our first web conference on Blogs in ELT, WELL 2 participants are now ready to start or relaunch their own blogs. Here's a joke for new bloggers! ;-) Looking forward to your first posts!

 Image: Flickr CC geekandpoke
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Welcome to WELL II 2011!

7:41 PM Carla Raguseo 14 comments

...and welcome to the WELL blog! This will be our open space on the web where we'll share conversations and extend our learning networks. This online journal is an ongoing contstruction that was started with previous WELL participants and will continue growing with your contributions!

My name is Carla Raguseo and I'll be your guide to "the center of the web 2.0"! Together we'll explore the potential of blogs and wikis for language learning.

I started my first blog for an online exchange project with my students six years ago. Since then, each new blog or wiki I created for my classes or for my own professional development has been a path to reflections and unexpected discoveries. Check out some of them here.

I'd like to invite you to introduce yourselves and share your experiences with blogs and wikis as well as your expectations for this course. Also, take your time to look around and make yourselves at home!
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WELL2: Goodbye Messages

3:31 PM Carla Raguseo 7 comments


Dear WELL teachers,

Here we are, reaching the end of these exciting weeks we have spent sharing, asking, analyzing, exploring and learning together!

We have ventured to new online territories, creating, posting, commenting, editing and building knowledge collaboratively.

The "formal" process may have come to an end, but our connections will remain because we own the spaces we have built together!

Thanks for your curiosity, commitment and enthusiasm!

Let's keep learning!

Love,

Carla
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5 REASONS WHY EFL BLOGGING IS A GOOD IDEA

1:32 PM Mariela 2 comments
- It helps students perceive the importance of learning a language as a communication tool.

- It provides a very powerful tool by means of which students can create content and improve their knowledge of the foreign language by participating in meaningful conversations in the target language.

- It promotes the development of higher order thinking skills, as teachers and students need to post entries which increase reflection, analysis, discussion and synthesis in order to establish a conversation and construct knowledge collectively.

- It encourages natural conversations between teacher and students in the same class as well as in different classes and even in different countries, thereby increasing awareness of perspectives outside the classroom and promoting learning about other cultures.

- It gives teachers the chance to develop a much more personal relationship with students and to establish a different kind of rapport with and among their students.
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5 reasons why I'd like to try EFL blogging:

4:58 AM Carina 4 comments

· A blog is not difficult to construct and the teacher can organise it to have a collaborative learning environment.
· Blogs are useful supplementary tools to engage students in the learning process, as they are meaningful for them.
· A blog is easy to use from any place, as the teacher or students can enter the blog from any computer.
· An advantage a blog has is that the teacher can create, edit or delete the material added to the blog. So, in a way, the teacher can control the blog and offer feedback to students at the same time.
· In a blog, teachers can add pictures, videos and links to other WebPages, so students can quickly navigate the web and look for the things they need.
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Welcome to a new WELL Module!

12:15 PM Carla Raguseo 18 comments

Welcome to our brand new WELL blog! An open online space to share our reflections and conversations with the world.

My name is Carla Raguseo and I'll be your online tutor. I'm an EFL teacher from Rosario, Argentina. In 2006 I started my first blog for an international online exchange for Argentinian and Brazilian students. Since then, I've started different blogs for my classes to facilitate connections and authentic communication.

Of course, there are no recipies or fixed guidelines for the use of blogs and wikis in education. However, we do need to understand how they work and what they mean to the learning process to take a sound decision on how to implement them in our classes.

Here's the recording of our Kick Off event last Saturday: An open talk with Claudia Ceraso to share experiences and to think together of new inspiring and innovative ways of empowering our students not just to learn the language but through the language and meaningful interaction.

Have a look at some of the examples we shared with Claudia during the conference:
http://fceblog.blogspot.com/
http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/

http://www.toeflibtprep.blogspot.com/




We'd love to hear about your experiences as well.
Please, write a short introduction and tell us about your experiences and expectations.

Have you ever blogged with your students or for your own professional development?
In your opinion, how can blogs and wikis be integrated in the language classroom?
What are your expectations for this course?

I look forward to learning together!
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