Leslie Linguo: The English teacher who is always online

Leslie Linguo: The English teacher who is always online

Dear mates, Welcome to my blog which is merely created for this class. You are also kindly asked to compose your personal blog to be used for this course and share it with me as soon as possible. Here are the keynotes for the process which I aim to follow throughout this semester: - This lesson requires a personal web blog of yours. Theoretically, you may build one through www.wordpress.com, www.weebly.com, www.edublogs.com or else. Alternatively, you may prefer a website, maybe a free one, through Joomla, Moodle, or other means. On the other hand, most of these developers either provide a limited service in their free edition, or are not free at all. Therefore, I personally use, and urge you to use, www.blogger.com, which is also a synchronous tool of your Google account. It means if you already have a gmail account, it is really practical to use Blogger. That is not the primary factor why I prefer Blogger. We will get utmost benefit from html or javascript codes, or maybe other digital languages, for our purposes. Most of the other means that I gave in the above lines do not let their users embed (use, mount, or integrate) such codes in their blogs. As an instance, see the Sample Unit in my blog. There is a flash animation integrated there. It is very easy and practical to embed such codes but, of course, as long as the service provider lets you. On the top of my homepage, you can see a section divided into eight units and their practices. When you click on each of these units, you will see some sort of lesson plan. Considering these plans, you are required to compose a theoretical section (like telling what Simple Present Tense is to your followers) and you will also prepare exercises in the Practice headers related to what you taught. While doing so, you are expected to generate original ideas. In other words, typing what Simple Present Tense is may not be enough; rather you may embed an in-depth video or an animation or any other genious ideas you may think of. You may also compose an online quiz through tools such as qzzr.com Below are some tools that I can think of spontaneously: www.pandorabots.com www.qzzr.com http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm www.starfall.com http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-Your-Own-Web-Surfing-Toolbar/ http://www.wikihow.com/Download-a-Flash-Game http://embed-swf-in-blogger.blogspot.com.tr/ PS: Almost any html code can be embedded onto Blogger, so any media or document in this sense are welcome. Do whatever you do, but do not forget: originality of your ideas are appreciated. Best!