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Started this discussion. Last reply by Nina Lyulkun Apr. 8, 2008.

About Me:: Hi,
I am an EFL and German teacher at a secondary school in Portugal. I would like to join this group because I am interested in learning more about blogging in education.
Joao

At 10:21am on April 21, 2008, Cristina Costa said…: Hi I am here too.
Nice to see so involved with B4E.
We sure benefit a lot room your contributions! ;-)

At 8:30am on April 15, 2008, Mary Hillis said…: Hi Joao, Thanks for saving links for me in delicious! It is great to have a place to share. I really liked TeachersFirst because there are so many useful resources and ideas :)

At 5:32pm on March 20, 2008, Joao said…: Hi Nina,
Thank you for sharing your experience. You mentioned a point that we teachers should bear in mind before trying to use blogs or other social software with students. I am referring to the need to expose students to these tools before asking them to use them. I think, I have learned this from the discussion during the SMILT08 workshop. If students see, read and comment on other students' blogs before, it's more likely that they feel more motivated to use blogs themselves afterwards.

At 4:35pm on March 20, 2008, Nina Lyulkun said…: Hi Joao!
Yes, it's a vital question while exploring blogging how to engage students through, and mostly motivate them when there is still no fast Internet connection at the uni. Anyway, after introducing blogs and web 2.0 tools at the conferences (students' conferences I mean) they seem to be rather interested in this. I guess that mutual collaborative projects might be the most motivating for them.

At 6:45am on March 20, 2008, Joao said…: Yes, that sounds good. Discussing a few practical ideas about how to engage students through blogging would be interesting for me. Reading about everyone's experience about it would certainly be enriching for all of us.

At 12:12am on March 20, 2008, Carla Arena said…: Well, I'm getting set to travel, but I'll think about it. Maybe we could have topics about connecting and engaging students through blogging, which is the hardest part to achieve, but we could go for practical ideas. I read your blog post about it and thought we could explore it here.

At 12:51pm on March 19, 2008, Joao said…: Thank you Carla. I don't know exactly what I would like to discuss here. Anything that's interesting, I guess. :-) What would you be interested in discussing?

At 12:28pm on March 19, 2008, Carla Arena said…: Welcome aboard, João! I'm glad you joined us. So what would you be interested in discussing here? Would love to hear more from you.