Thursday, January 20, 2011

Wikis and Blogs

BLOGS

Finally,

a mention about wikipages and blogs spaces on the internet. All that we can do online can be easily, quickly and practically freely uploaded on either a wiki or a blog. I use both.
Blogs are best for narration, easy set up of pages and uploading of videos, images and audios. Blogs let you communicate with the whole world at the tip of a simple link.
Blogs are usually used for story-telling and commenting. But nothing stops language teachers to use blogs for lesson planning and activity practice.

My best examples to the day about using blogs to teach are:


  1. Il tempo in Italia  a blog about weather
  2. The Speed Dating Blog - Italian Greetings and basic language functions
Read more about blogs here:

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WIKIS

And as for wikis, here links to some simple steps to set a wiki up and create and access a lot of resources on a wiki.