Sunday, September 25, 2011

Week 1

First Steps in Blogging.


I created my first blog long ago but never used it. Now the time has come to change the attitudes. My students work with blogs which I asked them to create, I enjoyed theirs- now I will try to have fun with mine.
This week I started with intensive readings on the suggested issues. But as soon as I came to the link I found another one which seemed even more useful and interesting.
http://edublogs.org/2011/09/07/edublogs-update-manage-multiple-blogs-with-a-more-powerful-my-blogs-page I will use at my next lesson to start creating blogs with my students for the lessons and hope it will be more structured work  than it happened before.
YouTube treated me as always to much new ideas. This time Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Sir Ken Robinson states that creativity in education is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. He argues that we are killing children's brilliant creative capacities in the most arrogant way, presuming to know what is best for them for when they enter the workforce in a future that we can scarcely imagine. I find it especially true regarding the time we live in and the future facing today’s students. I agree with Sir Ken Robinson that intelligence is diverse, dynamic, that is highly interactive, and we should educate the students of Digital culture considering both the quality of the education and HOW they are taught. I am doing my first steps to make my teaching more systematic with the technologies.
I visit many blogs now and then but feel always reluctant to leave a comment. Great feedback and tips I read on  http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/02/22/student-blogging-activity-3-beginner-teaching-quality-commenting  to start thinking of it differently.  I agree with one of the bloggers that a good comment is often times another idea. Teaching students to write a nice comment will be one of my next tasks.


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8 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 26, 2011 at 9:41 AM

    Hi Olena,

    To be honest I have watched Sir Ken Robinson's videos time and again. Every time I get some new inspiration about how digital natives should be taught in this fast-paced world.

    Talking about your classes, in what ways do you make use of technology in your classroom? How do students feel about that? Does it increase the achievement level of the students? I would love to read answers from you.

    Best regards

    Tariq Hayat
    Pakistan

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  2. olena franchukSeptember 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM

    Hi Tariq,
    Happy to know that you also like Sir Ken Robinson's presentations.

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  3. draganaSeptember 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    Dear Olena,
    very nice blog!So much information!Thank you!

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  4. olena franchukSeptember 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM

    Dear Dragana,
    Thanks for your nice words! I am still very diffident while blogging.I hope soon we are more able to effectively use technology to work on this project and use online tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues in other countries.

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  5. olena franchukSeptember 26, 2011 at 1:27 PM

    Hi Tariq,
    Thanks for writing nice comments to my blog. I tried my hand on different blogs to add some comment but failed! Here on my blog I was more successful. Now, in my new post I will try to give you some more feedback as to the issues you got interested.
    keep in touch

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  6. EmanSeptember 28, 2011 at 3:51 AM

    Hello Olena

    Very interesting reading your first participation in the blog. It is the first step to be creative in technology.
    For students will be more enjoyable because they will test new skills, using English with technology this what all teenagers and youth like.

    Eman

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  7. shavilaOctober 1, 2011 at 4:03 AM

    Hello Olena,
    Your blog is really beautiful.

    Great to read about so many interesting things out here.

    Looking forward to share more experiences with you

    Regards
    Shavila

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  8. olena franchukOctober 5, 2011 at 12:10 AM

    Hi Shavila,
    Having visited your blog and having read your great post, the clear vision of the need to view writing as a digital skill in the Era of Information became evident for me It’s very important for everyone to be well skilled in using the Web Searching tools. Resource discovery is crucial to effective writing/reading– there are library shelves but also external systems/repositories and services. There are specialist navigation tools used by the research community and multiple retrieval systems from VLEs to portals and search engines. On my UK or U.S. Literature lessons I plan some discussion/writing which requies the knowledge of the original text. Now you can find practically all the authors’ main works in digital form.

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