Blogging Toward Learner Autonomy
Yesterday I presented some of my ideas on learner autonomy and blogging at TappedIn as part of the weekly Blogstreams Salon, with Barbara (Bee) Dieu and Graham Stanley.
I enjoyed the resulting conversation with everyone very much, but as Bee rightly pointed out afterwards, I should have offered more specific practical examples of how to use blogs in ESL/EFL classrooms in such a way as to encourage a movement toward learner autonomy. What I provided instead, however, were merely general practical descriptions of how to do this. I plan to follow up more on this suggestion over the coming months.
See the text I prepared and presented for the chat is located here, and the full chat transcript is available at the EVonline Using Weblogs in ESL/EFL Classes group site.
Next month at TappedIn, Blogstreams Salon plans to feature Peter Ford talking about the ECML project he is working on with Valerie Sollars and Mario Camilleri. Stay tuned for more details.
*Update: The chat transcript is located online here.