Bee-coming a Webhead

Take note of Barbara Dieu's personal weblog that chronicles her learning, links, ideas about blogging and learning online. She does a wonderful job of sharing her learning with others. I had previously referred to her excellent Bee Online weblog which is a meeting place for students and teacher to interact.

Poribesh Bachan

Julie Lindsay is the Educational Technology Coordinator at the International School Dhaka, Bangladesh. Recently she and her Grade 8 students won the Environmental Awareness section of the International Schools' Cyberfair. The project weblog is fantastic. It is very informative and such a good example of student work. I learned a lot about Bangladesh. It's an awesome site! We need more student sites like this one.

Site Diary

Teaching English with Picture Books

Picture books are the focus on this blog. Teaching English with Picture Books was created by Lucy Mellersh. She teaches English to children using an activity-based approach. She focuses on picture books and uses this creative weblog to describe some of the activities (action rhymes, songs, games and craft activities) that she had done with them.

Dear Ai - Good Advice for ESL Students

"Dear Ai" gives good advice to English language students. If students have a question about learning English, they send an email to Ai and she posts the reply in her weblog.

Ai is an Assistant Marketing Director at Vancouver English Centre. Before that, she studied at ESL schools and graduated from Capilano College in 2002. Ai also writes for a Japanese magazine.

"Dear Ai" is published in the "ESL EGG" newspaper.

What a good use for weblogs! This could be applied in many different areas and could be quite helpful!

Tawawa.org

Tawawa.org is an online community of both teachers and students of either English or Japanese, who mostly live in Japan. They either write in Japanese (Zemi Note) or English (The Big Tree). Excerpts from both sections show up on the Front Page.

Tawawa. org is run by Rudolf Ammann, an English teacher at Mie University, Japan, and Wakako Kojima, an English Teacher at Nabari High School, Japan.

Thhe site began in April 2003 as part of a composition course at Mie University.

Anyone can post comments and new contributors are welcomed.

An English as a Second Language Blog - ESL

This ESL blog aims to provide news, reviews, ipinions, and links regarding learning and teaching English as a second language and English as a foreign language.

This site appears to be taught by James Trotta and I believe his students are Korean. He gives interesting information and discusses his classes.

BLINGER

BLINGER is a linguistic and ESL blog written by a practicing EFL instructor at a university in Seoul, South Korea. The blog is about linguistics graduate studies and teaching. The author is expressing thoughts about how theory can or should be transferred into practice and any difficulties that are likely to occur.

The author's love of language is obvious.  Discussion of words such as "draggle" and "bombinate" are extremely interesting. The discussion of animals and classifications such as a wake of buzzards and a dazzle of zebras- I think I can learn a lot here.  Teaching classifications to students can be made into an exciting and fun activity.  I look forward to reading more on this site.

Teaching in China Weblogs

This weblog keeps a list of China weblogs.  They are not all kept by teachers, and those who are teachers are not always writing about teaching. It looks like you can get an idea of what it is like to live and teach in China.

There are side links to  finding a job:

• teaching info
• living and working in China
• schools and cities
• case studies
• teaching ideas and lesson plans
• visas and permits

Dana Goes to Japan

Dana Watson created a weblog, Dana Goes to Japan, to keep a record of her teaching experiences while teaching in Japanese high schools.

Now Dana is in Michigan and has given her class of writing students weblogs where they can keep their own reflections about their experiences in the U.S.