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A Learning Space for Literacy and English Language Learners

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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Canadian Political Blogs: A Brief Survey (To be continued)

This post is aimed to provide a brief sketch of Canadian political blogs. These blogs are excellent resources for upper level literacy learners seeking topics for essays. Reviewing how other bloggers express their arguments in writing  to persuade others is crucial to offer some useful examples that students can then build on. One of the…

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Why Should Literacy Learners Bother with Blogging at all?

1. Bloggers read a lot more. Blogging gets you reading about topics you are interested in. The chance to keep track of what many others are saying about a special topic is a reason many would-be bloggers first start out as followers of other blogs. 2. Bloggers can keep track of resources online You can…

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Blogging is different from classroom writing (1)

There are so many reasons why students should start using blogs, and the first one that pops to mind for me is that you can “own” what you write. So often I have seen learners’ eyes go cloudy when required to write to form, pumping out assignments they have divested any energy or meaning. They…

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Introducing the EduBlogging 4 Literacy Blog

Welcome to the Edublogging4Literacy Blog. I have been asked by some colleagues to apply my experience as a blogger to creating a literacy blog, a blog intended to discuss literacy issues and demonstarte the use of blogs for adult literacy learners. My name is Glenn Groulx, and I am an adult literacy instructor at Northwest…

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