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To Blog or Not to Blog

To Blog or Not to Blog. Pavel Kurfürst Institute of Foreign Languages Palacký University in Olomouc. Language pedagogy cannot and should not be immunne to the advantages the Internet offers – in information, in resources and in opportunities for global communication.

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To Blog or Not to Blog

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  1. To Blog or Not to Blog Pavel Kurfürst Institute of Foreign Languages Palacký University in Olomouc ELT Signposts 2005 September 9-11, Brno

  2. Language pedagogy cannot and should not be immunne to the advantages the Internet offers – in information, in resources and in opportunities for global communication. S. Windeatt, D. Hardisty, D. Eastment: The InternetOxford University Press 2000, p. 1

  3. Computer literacy in the Czech Republic

  4. Computer literacy in the Czech Republic

  5. Computer literacy in the Czech Republic

  6. New phenomena – new words • early 1990’s (public use of the internet): online diaries, personal journals, logs • Dec. 1997 John Barger robotwisdom.com:(World Wide) Web + log weblog • May 1999 Peter Merholz peterme.com:abridged toblog n. • blog v. (we)blogger n. post n. blog + stratosphere blog(o)sphere n.

  7. New phenomena – new words OALD, 7th edition, 2005

  8. New phenomena – new words OALD, 7th edition, 2005

  9. New phenomena – new words OALD, 7th edition, 2005

  10. New phenomena – new words

  11. Blogger.com • free blog hosting service • 1999: started by Pyra Labs • 2001: one of The Guardian’sThe Seven Wonders of the Web (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon etc.) • 2003: bought by Google.com • July 2005: 14 million blogs

  12. How many blogs are there? • estimated 70 million (July 2005) • MSN Spaces 15M, Blogger 14M, LiveJournal 9M etc. • number of blogs doubles every 5 months • 1 new blog/second; 80,000/day • about 50% blank or dormant • nearly 1 million new posts/day

  13. Blogs – Journalists • Christopher Allbritton(freelance, ex AP and NY Daily News)back-to-iraq.com • Stuart Hughes (freelance, BBC News)stuarthughes.blogspot.com • Kevin Sites (freelance, NBC News)kevinsites.net

  14. Blogs – Writers • Cory Doctorow (sci-fi writer)craphound.com • William Gibson (cyberpunk/sci-fi writer)williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp • Noam Chomsky(linguist, political activist)blog.zmat.org/ttt

  15. Blogs – Celebrities • David Duchovny (actor, director, writer)lionsgatedirectors.com/duchovny • Moby (musician)moby.com/journal • Anna Kournikova (ex-tennis player, model)kournikova.com/journal

  16. Blogs in Czech • Ladislav “Laco” Bittner (IT journalist)laco.bloguje.cz • Zdeněk Škromach (minister)zdenek-skromach.cz • “Ostravak”since Dec. 2004, 800,000 visits, 5,000/dayostravak.bloguje.cz

  17. More about blogs • Technorati Blog Finder(tracking 16.7M blogs, search)technorati.com • The Blog Herald (online journal)blogherald.com • Miloš “Medius” Čermák (journalist – Reflex, Lidové noviny)extra.cz

  18. Free blog hosting – English • blogger.com • spaces.msn.com • livejournal.com • blogeasy.com • weblogpage.com • bloxster.net • etc.

  19. Free blog hosting – Czech • bloguje.cz • blog.cz • blog.lide.cz • brouzdej.cz • etc.

  20. A new blog in a few minutes • blogger.com • create an account • user name & password • title of the blog • graphic template • write / edit new posts • add photographs • include hyperlinks

  21. As a means of communication, the Internet allows students around the world to interact with one another cheaply, quickly and reliably, opening up the classroom to the real world in a way which has never before seen possible. S. Windeatt, D. Hardisty, D. Eastment: The InternetOxford University Press 2000, p. 6

  22. Blogs in ELT • other people’s blogs • source of information, amusement • search, read, discuss, comment • your (groups of) students’ blogs • class / school journals or notice boards • projects • personal diaries

  23. Blogs in ELT • teachers’ blogs • less formal communication with students • additional materials, photographs, links • internet presentation of departments • cooperation, projects

  24. The Internet is constantly developing and presents many possibilities for language learning that have hardly been explored. Use your imagination, try things out, and take the occassional risks! S. Windeatt, D. Hardisty, D. Eastment: The InternetOxford University Press 2000, p. 14

  25. signposts2005.blogspot.com pavel.kurfurst@upol.cz www.ucjlf.upol.cz

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