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A Learning Space for Literacy and English Language Learners

Integrating Formal and Non-Formal Learning for ESL Learners

  I would like to introduce the idea of integration of formal and non-formal online learning, where participants can start from any of these four points, and choose to move along these 4 roles. as a student taking a course as a student taking independent study with a supervisor, as a non-registered learner participating online…

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For ESL Students and Teachers: Journal Writing Starters

These are a few ideas to get started using the blog for personal journaling.  ESL learners and teachers need to begin using their blog as a sandbox, collecting photos, links, phrases, and quotes of ideas for later. This collection stage is quite important; it identifies what you are most interested in writing about, and highlights…

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About Play-Building and Using Group Blogs

Robyn Philip and  Jennifer Nicholls (2009) wrote an interesting article about group blogging, titled Group blogs: Documenting collaborative drama processes Here are some notes about the significance of play-building, a process that involves the documentation of collaboration, reflection and creativity. Playbuilding is described as Group devised theatre, in which “students create, produce and perform the play to…

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Tips for Encouraging Anonymous Blogging

I think it is important to allow learners to interact anonymously if they so choose. The edublogs.org application enables the use of student avatars. I would recommend, however, that the use of anonymous learning activities be tied to specific codes of conduct to clearly outline the rules, etiquette, and methods of enforcement for users, and…

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Starting to Blog With Literacy Learners? Here are a Few Ideas

Adult literacy learners face a huge challenge of what to write, and so here are a few ideas to break the ice for newcomers to blogging: visioning, berry-picking, and path-making activities. Visioning: Introducing Self to Peers and the Instructor In this activity, student bloggers are asked to present some reasons for starting blogging, such as informing friends and family…

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