{"id":2052,"date":"2009-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2052"},"modified":"2009-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"blogging-in-mfl-basics-and-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/blogging-in-mfl-basics-and-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging in MFL basics and links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/155848532\/\" title=\"sandaig home by troutcolor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/56\/155848532_b8ef8308a1_m.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" alt=\"sandaig home\" style=\"float:left;width:180px;height:180px;margin:4px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post consists of some notes and information to go along with a short chat I will be having with folk at the North Lanarkshire   business meeting in Modern Languages at the invite of <a href=\"http:\/\/mrdalzell.edublogs.org\/\">Robert Dalzell<\/a> QIO International Education.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer, a quick scan of this blog will prove that I&#8217;ve not mastered my first language never mind a second. I have no real knowledge of MFL except that I read quite a few MLF blogs and I have <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/archive\/2006\/03\/18\/communicate06\" title=\"Communicate.06 - John's World Wide Wall Display\">talked to MFL teachers before.<\/a><\/em><br  \/>Not much of this post is specfic to MFL but hopefully the examples I give on the day will be of practical use to the audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Blogs?<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Easy low bar technology<\/strong>:<br  \/>If you can type you can blog. Recent blogging systems deal with text, and multi-media is a very simple and straightforward way. Low cost or free. Modern blogs handle media and organisation automatically in ways that used to be open only to skilled web developers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community &#038; audience<\/strong>:<br  \/>There is already a widespread network of educational blogging you can join. For pupils blogging <em>can<\/em> make learning real and purposeful.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dissemination &#038; Aggregation<\/strong>:<br  \/>Through RSS (really simple syndication) it is easy to keep up with a large number of blogs and easy for your blog to be widely read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further reading on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensourcecpd.org.uk\" title=\"OpenSourceCPD : Main - Home Page browse\">OpenSourceCPD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensourcecpd.org.uk\/index.php?n=CpdMaterials.Blogging\">CpdMaterials &#8211; Blogging<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensourcecpd.org.uk\/index.php?n=CpdOpportunities.IntroBlogging\">CpdOpportunities &#8211; Intro Blogging<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensourcecpd.org.uk\/index.php?n=CpdOpportunities.RSS\">CpdOpportunities &#8211; RSS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ways to use blogs in education:<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CPD<\/strong><br  \/>Blogging has become a powerful tool for professional development for many teachers and educators worldwide. By reading blogs you can keep up with some of the latest ideas in education and join in discussions of these ideas.<br  \/>I&#8217;ve put together some ideas about this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensourcecpd.org.uk\/index.php?n=CpdOpportunities.ReadingBlogs\">OpenSourceCPD- Reading Blogs as CPD<\/a> and there are some links to mfl teachers blogs below.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teacher to Pupil:<\/strong><br  \/>Teachers can publish homework, revision, extra material. This can be text, files such as pdfs, audio (podcasting) or video.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pupil Publishing<\/strong>:<br  \/>(This is my favourite bit) A static website involves a fair bit of work and distances children from the publishing process. Weblogs allow children to become more directly involved in the publishing process without delving into time consuming html skills.<br \/>\n\tAllow children to \u2018write the web\u2019 as opposed to reading it.<br  \/><br \/>\n\tIt is another wall display<br  \/><br \/>\n\tTo give the children a wider (one of the widest) audience for some of their work, increase their sense of ownership and responsibility of their work and gain feedback and co-operation from others. Working in small groups on a shared text\/media encourages peer feedback and co-operation.<br  \/><br \/>\n\tHopefully it should inform parents and even allow children to understand aspects of class life. Scanning down the blog show a surprisingly wide variety of activities recently covered.<br  \/><br \/>\n\tFor many children working on the computer still has motivational value and this is surely increased by the fact that we are publishing for the world.<br  \/><br \/>\n\tMany types of media; images, comics, audio, video, animation can be used by pupils as well as text. <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/archive\/2007\/05\/27\/starting-blogging-in-the-classroom\">Starting Blogging in the Classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\tBlogs tagged MFL on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotedublogs.org.uk\">ScotEduBlogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mfle.typepad.com\/tgs\/\">The Gordon Schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mfle.typepad.com\/montroseacademymrc\/\">Montrose Academy. Mr Curran (Modern Languages)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mlsupport.edublogs.org\/\">Highland Modern Languages Subject Support<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edu.blogs.com\/edublogs\/\">edu.blogs.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jeannisbetarion.blogs.com\/arion\/\">Arion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/woodhillprimaryschool.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Woodhill Primary School French<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eamlnews.blogspot.com\/\">East Ayrshire Modern Languages News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/firrhillfrench.blogspot.com\/\">Firrhill French!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kaymcmeekin.edublogs.org\/\">Flappi mania<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mfle.typepad.com\/ggs\/\">GGS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inchinnanprimaryschool.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Inchinnan Primary School<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\">\n\t.delicious-banner {font-size:13px;display:inline;}\n<\/style>\n<p><!-- script element removed --><br \/>\n<strong>LTS:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltscotland.org.uk\/mfle\/index.asp\">MFLE &#8211; Information, support, ideas and resources for modern languages teaching<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post consists of some notes and information to go along with a short chat I will be having with folk at the North Lanarkshire business meeting in Modern Languages at the invite of Robert Dalzell QIO International Education. 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