Blogging a modern

approach in EFL lessons

Presenter: Zlatov Aliona
english teacher, II-nd didactic degree

Training with regional

teachers
Basarabeasca district

Training Objectives:
Share experience and
information about Blogging
School Project;
Present useful resources
which can be integrated
into a Blog;
Engage the participants and
rise their interest in using
online tools within English
lessons;
Reflect teaching portfolio,
students sample work,
lesson plans, teaching
advice;

What is a BLOG?-define this

term using the word cloud below

How to create a Blog?

There

are several platforms for

creating a Blog:

a)Blogger
http://www.bloggerthemes.net/
b)Wordpress
http://theme.wordpress.com/
c)Weebly
http://www.weebly.com/themes/

Steps for creating a Blog:

B
ad logs
dre
ss

How does my Blog look

like:
Blogs
pages

Blogs
title
Blogs
subpages

Online tools integrated in my

school Blog:
Online dictionaries

Online survey
and questionary

Online tools integrated in a

school Blog:

As an EFL teacher what do you

think about: (group work)

The
importance
of a wellstructured
lesson plan?

3-4 things to
consider
while
planning a
lesson

1-2
challenges
while making
a lesson plan
and ways to
cope with
them

Develop Higher-order
thinking skills According to Blooms

Bloom's

Taxonomy was
created in 1956 under the
leadership of educational
psychologist Dr Benjamin
Bloom in order to promote
higher forms of thinking in
education, such as
analyzing and evaluating
concepts, processes, proce
dures, and principles
, rather than just
remembering facts (rote
learning). It is most often
used when designing
educational, training, and
learning processes.

taxonomy there are 3 main

domains of learning:
Cognitive: mental skills
(knowledge)
Affective: growth in
feelings or emotional areas
(attitude or self)
Psychomotor: manual or
physical skills (skills)
The main Online
objectives
Intagrating
Toolsof
Blooms
taxonomy are:
teachers
can:
--Demonstrate
What?(what to --Discuss
do)
--Discover
--Develop

How?(How to do)
--Collaborate
--Boost
interest
How much(to what extend)
--Practice skills

Web tools for implementing

Blooms taxonomy

Blog as a platform for Flipped

instruction
Flipped

instruction is a form of
blended learning in which
students learn content online by
watching video lectures usually
at home, and h-k is done in class
with teachers and students
discussing and solving questions.

My sample of Flipped
lesson

http://englishforbascalia.weebly.com/flippedlesson

Benefits of the Flipped

classroom model
-teacher

can propose a variety of learning

materials (text, videos, audio)
-the interaction between teacher and student is
more personalized and less didactic;
-engage students more in the content;
-it offers highly differentiated instructions;
-the main actor is the student-the didactic process
is centered on the student
- teacher is the guide of the learning process
-the main work is done at home, in familiar
conditions
-it develops students potential and increases
their implication during the lesson

Lets do itpractical activity

How

to create a Voki presentation?

http://www.voki.com/mywebsite.php
How to create a Google Form?
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-dr
ive
How to create a an online poster
http://alionicica56a794ce48c93.edu
.glogster.com/dashboard/

Why blogging is good?

It increases
your writing
skills

You meet new

people

It develops
Critical
thinking

It serves as a
personal
journal

It is fun, free
and creative

You will inspire

others

It ensure the
connection
between
home and
school

Blogs benefits for students and

teachers (team work)

Blogs can be used as online

platforms for students to:

Blogs can be used as online

platforms for students to:

Post online projects, such as

video, or picture slideshows

Create online lesson plans

Share useful online resources

integrated in the lesson plan

Publish useful resources for

EFL students-online
dictionaries, online grammar
quizzes

Give students feedback

Bring the world into their

classroom

Turn paper lesson plans into

online, digital instructions

Share comments,
impressions, questions with
each other

Find useful online resources

posted by EFL teachers
Learn about specific topicsenvironmental issues, a
healthy lifestyle
Display their best work, such
as essays, poems, digital
posters

Blogging within English lessons

Evocation
Select

the proverb from the Word Cloud and comment

it. Wordle.com
Watch the YouTube video and answer to the questions.
YouTube.com
Solve the online crossword using the previous
vocabulary puzzlemaker.com
Find out as many winter words (fruits, colors, numbers)
as possible from the puzzle armoredpinguin.com
Listen attentively to the songs and select the key word
TeacherTube.com

Blogging within English lessons

Meaning
realization

Find out synonyms/antonyms for a list of words using

online dictionaries; forvo/ oxford/

Find out three idioms with clothes/parts of the body/

animals the free dictionaries

Select the main information from an audio text

YouTube.com

Watch a MoveNote video and answer to the questions

Listen to a great personality speech and select the

main ideas Voki.com

Learn Grammar with Jennifer englishwithjennifer.com

Create a short video using Present Continuous

affirmations and pictures Stupeflix.com

Create an article about environmental problems in

Moldova Slydestory.com

Blogging within English lessons

Reflection
Fill

in the online Google Form

Describe a personality using expressions from
the WordCloud Tagxedo.com
Make a comment about the lesson and useful
materials Voicethread.com
Use conversational formulas from the video in
your own micr odialogues
englishwithjennifer.com
Complete the sentences with necessary
verbs/nouns/ prepositions etc Scribd.com
Create a poster on a familiar topic
pinterest.com

Blogging within English lessons

Extension
Create

an online presentation on a familiar

topic glogster.com; thinklink.com;
animoto.com;
Give the lesson feedback VoiceThread.com
Implement a PBL (Project Base Learning)
MoveNote.com; VoiceThread.com
Organize an E-portfolio weebly.com;
wordpress.com
Fill in a GoogleForm; Sribd.com

My students samples and works:

My students samples and works:

My students samples and works:

Training feedback -feel in the Google

Form
https://docs.googl

e.com/forms/d/1gG0
JdCU-cVQZFck_keovk
ghdoEDYzyH2D1NFjrV
UT3o/viewform

Thank you!!!