Teaching with Blogs

Last week, I attended an e-Teaching Symposium held at UIC entitled “Teaching with Blogs: Tips and Best Practices from the Trenches. The presenter Dr. Jason Rhode – assistant director of the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center at Northern Illinois University – gave us a very good presentation about this great CALL tool. In this Symposium the presenter shared lessons learned from incorporating instructor and student blogs into an online course as well as practical recommendations for those considering utilizing blogs in online learning. The presenter also reviewed sample instructor and student blogs and demonstrated a number of activities designed specifically for blogs.
I thought that this was a very good opportunity for me as a future ESL/EFL teacher and I really learned a lot from this seminar.
The symposium is posted on blogger. You can view it by clicking on this link http://uicblogs.blogspot.com/