I provide teacher training on how to use blogs with ESL learners. I have
a website set up with samples of teachers blogs and a handout on how to
set up your own blog that can be used with students or by you to start
your own blog. http://www.theMLC.org/blogs 

These ESL teacher blogs might provide some ideas on how to get started
using blogs with your own students. To understand how these blogs are
used with students begin at the bottom of the page and scroll up.
Because students will see the bottom posting first, new postings are
always at the top. Some of them have student comments as well. Other
teachers who use this in class may have students writing comments on
paper and turning them in there.

Nima

Nima Salehi
Educational technology specialist
Minnesota Literacy Council
Email:  nsalehi at themlc.org
Phone: 651-645-2277  ext. 224
http://www.theMLC.org/edtech 

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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 14:19:16 -0500
From: "Cindy J Holden" <gradplan1 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Technology 830] Re: Suggestions for good blogs
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Metacogitation <http://cindyholden.blogspot.com/>
working link :)

On 2/2/07, Cindy J Holden <gradplan1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> Thank you, Alan G, for sending links to your blog. It looks

interesting,

> and I plan to read through later this evening. I also hit the send

button

> prematurely - forgetting to identify myself yesterday in a post to

this

> listserve. Here is try number 2 (oh the humanity)

>

> I have reactivated a blog that I started as a grad school assignment

> (Marlboro College - Masters in Teaching with Technology). The

conversation

> currently is around educational leapfrogging in Vermont and the ways

> technology makes that possible (or not). I would love to have guest

blog

> entries from people with fresh ideas for drop out recovery programs

> especially - but all ideas related to teaching and technology can be

> entertained.

> The social networking that is so important to success for youth is

also

> important for me - but I find I have to push myself to get started.

> I do not fit the blogger stereotype you so aptly describe - I am a

single

> working mother from a hill tribe village and the only member of my

family to

> attend college (so far). My blog:

>

>

Metacogitation<http://cindyholden.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.htmlht
tp://>

>

> Cindy Holden

> High School Liaison

> Southern Vermont

>

>

> On 2/1/07, Gerstle, Alan <Alan.Gerstle at montgomerycollege.edu> wrote:

> >

> > This is a follow-up to my previous e-mail regarding technology blogs

> > with a focus on education.  I hit the send button too quickly (which

is

> > an ironic action indicative of some of the anti-technology stances I

> > hold.  But here are the links I had planned to include from my blog

> > www.inthetext.com , now in operation for about a year.

> >

> >

> >  http://inthetext.com/index.php?s=%24100+laptop

> >

> >

http://web.archive.org/web/20040604201522/http://www.drexel.edu/doj/arch

> >

> > ives/2004/essay/rap_sheet_mouse.asp

> >

> > http://www.inthetext.com/?p=162

> >

> > http://www.inthetext.com/?p=156

> >

> > http://www.inthetext.com/?p=153

> >

> > Feedback is welcomed if done in a constructive spirit!

> >

> > Alan Gerstle

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:

technology-bounces at nifl.gov ]

> > On Behalf Of Steve Quann

> > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:26 PM

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Subject: [Technology 823] Re: Suggestions for good blogs

> >

> > I find the Literacy Tech blog good for what's happening/what's new.

> > http://literacytech.org/blog.html

> >

> >

> >

> > Steve Quann

> > World Education

> > 44 Farnsworth Street

> > Boston, MA

> >      617.482.9485

> >

> >

> > >>> < laferlazzo at aol.com> 1/29/2007 4:03 PM >>>

> >

> > Hi, Everybody,

> >

> > I was wondering if people had suggestions of blogs that are

particularly

> > good for ESL teachers and others that might relate ESL to

technology.

> >

> > One blog that I particularly like, even though it's not directly

> > connected to ESL, is the Web Savvy Educator

> > ( http://www.techsavvyed.net/) .  I've found a number of useful

posts in

> >

> > it.

> >

> > Larry Ferlazzo

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: ejonline at comcast.net

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:36 PM

> > Subject: [Technology 816] National Reading Conference

> >

> >

> > Research Award Opportunity

> >

> > National Reading Conference - J. Michael Parker Award

> >

> > The National Reading Conference awards the J. Michael Parker Award

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> > encourage

> > research in adult literacy. The award is given to graduate students

and

> > untenured professors who present research on adult learning or

education

> > at the

> > annual conference. Recipients of the award will receive $300 towards

> > their

> > conference expenses and will be recognized during a general session

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> > the

> > conference. The award was established in 2001 in honor of J. Michael

> > Parker,

> > winner of National Reading Conference's Student Research Award.

> >

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When

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> >

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> > theory

> > and/or practice of adult learning and instruction.

> >

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> > sufficient

> > rigor.

> >

> > 3.  Implications of the research are of a scope needed to impact the

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> >

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> >

> > Thank you.

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