Walking Stick Blogger

A Learning Space for Literacy and English Language Learners

Identity Building for ESL Learners: Using your Blog to Build your Portfolio

An Internationally Trained Professional new to Canada will need to demonstrate their skills and experience through their diplomas, licenses, and resume. Many would need to supplement these documents with evidence showcasing their skills development through documenting career assessments, recognition of foreign credentials, English language assessment results (Canadian Language Benchmarks, IELTS, etc.) as well as provide evidence of learning completed during industry specific skills training courses, LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers) classes, employment workshops, volunteering (internships), and networking contacts.

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Think-Aloud Blogging – Preparing for Formal Writing

One of the concerns I have about enabling student blogging is that sometimes academics (and students, I hasten to add) entering into blogging with students have not themselves clearly identified heuristics for handling self-sponsored writing – blogging by students that is reflective, emotional and highly personal, and often not directly connected with anything being taught in the course.

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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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Adding Texture to Academic Blog Posts

Using Footnotes to describe way-making , and add context Using Title HTML tags to define, and elaborate on concepts Signalling register and voice changes Signalling in-line edits with the combination of the strikethrough and italics keys Inserting revisions and updates with different font types Note to audience/self: this addendum provides extra context for me, providing…

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Academic Blogging: Developing Critical Thinking

 Fisher, 2001, Critical Thinking: An Introduction  Fisher referred to Edward Glaser ‘s list that identified  a number of critical thinking abilities: (Glaser, 2001, pg. 10).   Identify reasons and conclusions Identify and evaluate assumptions Clarify and interpret expressions and ideas Judge acceptability and credibility of claims Evaluate arguments Analyze, evaluate and produce explanations Evaluate, analyze…

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