Thanks very much for sharing this stuff. It's great! We have a group of ELP instructors who are working on finding ways to utilize Web 2.0 both for our work practice and for teaching. One instructor in particular has been doing a lot with his students with blogs and wikis. We'll be happy to share what comes out of all this and your example will be helpful in encouraging more of our instructors to get involved.
Cheers,
Bill
On Dec 1, 2007 12:47 PM, Roddy Davis <r.davis.f@icu-h.ed.jp> wrote:
Bill-
This is Roddy Davis over at the high school. It was good running
into you last week because I had been meaning to email you after
looking at your ELP blog. Also, once again thanks for introducing me
to TED.com.
I have been doing podcasting for about 2 years now as part of a 3rd
year Media Studies class. But this year I have also been
experimenting with posting extra material on a blog and having
students access these outside class time. And I just keep thinking
that the potential for enriching the curriculum through blogs is so
under-tapped that I want to get the word out.
Benefits:
Students do not need to be prodded to go on-line. They love it.
Students can watch and listen to material at their own pace. They can
re-wind and fast forward as they like. They can watch the material
several times if they can't catch everything the first time.
Teachers can post some very interesting material that would have been
extremely difficult to find just a few years ago. We are doing The
Tempest in a Level One class and for a pre-reading activity we
looked at the issue of colonialism through the Columbus story. I
posted an old 1950s cartoon which told the traditional heroic story of
Columbus and through that we examined bias in history. And we then
compared the cartoon to modern versions of the story which tell of
the genocide and slave trade that Columbus was responsible for.
English classes are limited to 4 hours per week yet by posting
material on the blog, teachers can extend the classroom beyond the
3:10 chime. Rather than showing a documentary or film in class and
eating up valuable classtime, we can have the students watch the
mateial in their own time, leaving more time for in class activiteis
and discussion. Also, having students watch material in a dark
classroom is an invitation for some students to catch up on sleep.
Whereas, of they watch the material in their own time and they are
assigned some questions or writng activity, I'll bet that they are
concenrating more than they would in a dark classroom.
I have just begun to experiment with this kind of thing and am still
collecting material and developing intersting ways to use them. But I
can say that it has opened up lots of potentially interesting projects
and am hoping to spread the gospel of resource blogs to fellow
teachers at the high school.
If you are interested, please check out the four blogs that I have
been using for ICUHS classes.
ICUHS Radio News (Media Studies) http://the-eye-icuhs.blogspot.com
Media Studies blog http://media-icuhs.blogspot.com
ICUHS Radio Theater (Level 3 Short Fiction/Radio Drama blog) http://icuhs-radio-theater.blogspot.com
Davis Cinema (Literature resource blog) http://davis-cinema.blogspot.com
Roddy Davis
ICUHS
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International Christian University
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Tokyo 181-8585
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