Making of My Blog - Week 1

Making a Blog was quite a new thing to me as I have not done it before. But as I already have a Gmail account I could skip few steps and continue from step 3. As the instructions given in the paper was very clear I didn't have any problem in making the Blog. In fact I enjoyed achieving each step and seeing something new. After making the Blog of mine, I started to do experiments like, inserting a picture of me, changing the appearance, putting different designs etc. Its not very frustrating so far, as I achieve things well.

I'm thinking about how to incorporate Blogs in my writing classes. At the same time, I browse Internet to find out the ways of teaching English using Blogs.

Hope to find more ways on designing the Blog as well as how to incorporate it in teaching the language. If you got more ideas, please let me know.

Thanks

Chandy

Week 1- My First Blog Creation

Hi Everyone,

This is the very first time I created a Blog of my own. As I've already got a G mail address, I started my journey from Step 3 in the instruction sheet. It was plain sailing for me as the instructions were very clear in the paper.Once I created it I wanted to do some designing. But I was not able to succeed well in it. I think we have to get involved in lots of experimenting, to achieve things. Therefore I kept it aside for the time being.. 

Now I'm thinking of how I could use this tool to develop the students' writing skill in the class. As I'm dealing with young adults they are inquisitive about new techniques in learning. Blogs give total freedom for anybody to experiment and comment their ideas, not only for the teacher to read but also to the classmates and to the whole world. I think Blogs could develop learner independence that way. As I mentioned earlier, the biggest draw back in learning English is caused by lack of motivation. These new technological tools like Blogs will increase the students' interest and motivation to use the language. Because, its not  only the teacher's feedback they get, but friends', classmates' and outer world's. As a result, they will take extra precautions in doing something right with correct spelling and grammar as they don't like to get exposed with wrong English mostly. On the other hand, I think, Blogs pave a path to the learners to reflect, comment, question, as well as to communicate with each other. When consider on using Blogs in the classroom as teachers, a Blog can be used  as an authentic, interesting and a communicative teaching tool.

With all this new realizations and excitement of finding a new tool for teaching, I look forward to grab many opportunities to know the interesting ways of incorporating Blogs in language classes.