Blog of the "Get the most of your Blog!" summer course at Escola Splai
Activity 2: Browsing for English Blogs
Hello teachers,
Browse these English websites, choose one of them and write in a comment some pros and cons about it. You can add the link on the Sidebar of the blog.
Mare de Deu de Montserrat School (Kindergarden)
We have seen the blog of the “Escola Splai” and I thought that it is a very complete blog where students and parents can go easily to the course that they are interested in. There are also a lot of useful resources and links.
Almudena
It’s very funny bloc for the pupils, simple, clear and many differents links to fun activities.
Bloc of Escola Els Pins is very well organised. Each group class has got a blog and it’s very easy for families and students to find and see the activities.
I really like Our English class blog because it’s got a lot of resources and interesting widgets on all the sidebars. It’s also very updated and with some other recommendations.
I think Our English Class blog is very useful for students in order to improve children’s participation. There are also some useful activities related with the topic.
Is is very usefull
Escola els Pins
I like this blog very much but I think there is so much information. I don’t know if my students will be able to understand all this information. There were very nice links and very interesting. I think the organization of the blog is very clear
I have seen the blog of the “Escola Collserola”.
It is a mix of recordings, games and songs. But I think that the sound of the recordings is not good and it’s difficult to understand the conversation.
The students enjoy a lot this “recordings”. And they’ve got easy games and songs that they can practise at home and the family can be part of this learning.
I have seen the Taula Rodona School blog. Some of their pros are that slidebars are easy to follow and that there are lots of activities, videos and links for children to continue practising English at home.
On the other hand, one of the cons I see is that posts haven’t got a clear title. You can only see the name of a unit but not the grade, for example. Also there aren’t comments so there’s no interaction between the blog and the students.
I really like “Our English Blog”! I think it’s very useful for teachers because there are very interesting posts to learn from.
I like the the blog Els Pins. It has got lots of resources and interesting activities. I think that the pronounciation activities are really interesting, Maybe the theme is a little bit old fashioned.
All the blogs have lot of work, some of them are more quick or easy to move around for found or spot exercices. It’s very important to have a clear idea about who’s going to read the blog, children, teachers, families,…. To be very organized, and work a lot around it. Learning from others, the good and bad things. And update it daily or weekly…
I have checked the Our English Class blog. It has lots of videos with children acting out plays and games. The only thing I didn’t like was the children’s pronunctiation, in my opinion it wasn’t good enough.
I have seen the Primary English M F Margalida Florit.
This blog is very funny for the pupils of the Primary level.
The sidebar is very good.
Blog:
Our english class: http://pelesa2.blogspot.com.es/
Pros: I quite like the appearance of the blog. The videos are motivating. It’s good at cooperative work.
Cons: There aren’t any comments from the students. There’s very little interaction. It doesn’t mention the student’s grade.
The blog of Nosa Señora das Dores it has lots of resources. The thing I liked the most it was that the English teacher has the resources in different parts: that is she has the blog of each class with the different activites, and it has a resource bank of different kind of activities (listening activities, board games activities, Festivities activities).
On the other hand, the layout could me simplier, from my oppinion it has got too much drawings.
I have already seen the blog ´Escola Els Pins’ and it seems to me it’s very useful and appropiate to use it for me as a teacher and also for all the students. It has a big variety of labels and a sidebar. You can see videos, projects done by the ss., dialogues, activities…
The unique inconvinience is that there are some games, but you can go through them.
Anna c