Hello everyone. This is this blog’s first post and I hope it won’t be the last. I have always flirted with the idea of creating a blog to use as an extra resource for my students – they always want some more – and I finally decided that it was about time to get started.
I had a similar project to this one but instead of posting everything on the internet I created a mail-list on gmail and sent all the extra resources (links, audio files, pdfs, articles, etc.) by email. I have got to admit that my students all loved the idea and still do but let’s face it that it’s a heck of a work doing this every weekend. My wife was complaining that I was spending all my Saturdays emailing my students and I can’t blame her!
But thanks to a workshop called “Bloggin basics for beginners” by Karen Thomson I could finally create my own blog and now I intend to use this as both a tool to enhance and foster my students autonomy when learning a foreign language and also an online portfolio of everything I am doing in my classroom with them. I intend to post not only activities for my students but also videos, essays, audio, pictures produced by them.
Keep your fingers crossed and wish me luck on my new endeavour!
That’s amazing idea for second language students! I’m sure they’re going to feel encouraged to practice their skills by posting their opinion here and also searching sth or just surfing on the interesting websites.
Congratulations, Teacher Leo!
Excellent idea! You’re incredible!
Great idea, teacher! I think your site will help me when I’ll go back to Brazil.
Thanks Orasil.
I hope you’ll continue visiting and commenting on the blog.
How’s life in Brazil now?