TY  - BOOK
AU  - Camilleri, Mario
AU  - Ford,Peter
AU  - Leja,Helena
AU  - Sollars,Valerie
TI  - Blogs : Web Journals in Language Education
SN  - 9789287162366 (pbk)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Strasbourg
PB  - Council Of Europe, European Centre for Modern Languages
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Europe
KW  - Blogs
N1  - "European Centre for Modern Languages."
Also available in French as "Blogs dans l’enseignement des langues vivantes"; Includes bibliographical references; "Weblogs (or blogs) are possibly the most visible of the web 2.0 technologies, described by some as "push-button publishing for the people". One commentator describes blogs as "impressive spontaneous acts of decentralised journalism", while another talks of the power of blogs to "transform both writers and readers from audience to public and from consumer to creator". This publication is one of the outcomes of an ECML project which, over the course of three years, investigated the design of an educational blogging platform and its use in the language classroom. It is intended for the adventurous language teacher who wishes to harness the potential of the writable Web in his or her language class, the teacher trainer who promotes a social constructivist paradigm, and the educational software designer who seeks to create flexible educational tools which incorporate "subversion".; The accompanying CD-Rom contains the entire corpus of blogs - warts and all - produced by project participants (over 4000 posts and 9000 comments), as well as the educational blogging platform prototype developed for this project, which is an open-source release under the GNU General Public License". (Book Cover); TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction; Mario Camilleri; Reflections on the effective use of blogs in the classroom; Peter Ford
; Blogging as activity or genre?
; Building community – the first steps
; Explicit building
; Building techniques; Writing experiences in a second or foreign language classroom: from theory to practice; Valerie Sollars
; Introduction
; Purposes and functions for writing
; Traditional approaches to teaching writing
; Blogs
; Blogs in practice
; References; Improving writing skills in foreign language classes; Helena Leja
; The challenges inherent in producing a piece of writing
; Blogs as a means of expression for learners
; Blogs as a response to psychological needs
; Advantages of project participation vis-à-vis the challenge of writing
; Topics addressed
; Blogs and intercultural exchanges
; So why write?
; References; A feature set for an educational blogging platform; Mario Camilleri
; Blogging platform
; Design brief
; Deconstructing weblogs
; Blogspace navigation
; Workflow model
; Blog moderation
; User accounts and school-safe blogging
; Promoting dialogue and community
; Personalisation and other features
; References; About the authors
UR  - https://www.ecml.at/tabid/277/PublicationID/10/Default.aspx
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