Hello everybody!!! I am pleased to have this tool to communicate my points of view regarded on interesting topics about educational materials. This is an excellent way to sharing knowledge, getting feedback and opinions from the readers, facilitating online discussions and collaboration. I would like to give you important information and to receive your comments or suggestions.
ESL(English as a Second Language) helps people who want to study English as a new language giving them an opportunity to learn, even if they do not have a complete grasp about it, and improve their grammar, linguistic, speaking and reading skills. ESL serves as a great way to fill in the missing gap in your knowledge or skills, since they are mostly inclusive of innovative classes and educational events. It includes many strategies to teach facilitating the knowledge and making the classes easier, more engaged and more interactive because this uses methods like videos, blogs, songs, games, microbloggings, internet, etc.
Pages where you could get more about ESL materials as videos, games, songs and exercises:
Ward Cunningham from Oregon chose the name of wiki for his invention in 1994: a system for creating, sharing and reviewing information on the web, easily and automatically.
What is a Wiki?
The Wiki is used to create web pages in a fast way; in the same way offers users the opportunity of challenge information including who has not enough informatics experience because it is an easy manner of include texts, hypertexts, digital documents, links and others.
We call Wiki to the web pages with images or any topic that can be visited, deleted, edited or modified by many people without any restriction. By the way, it becomes in a Web that allow us to enter and create documents, its main purpose is permit each visitors give and publish on the internet their points of view sharing knowledge about the same theme in order that be a complete page; it is transformed in a effective tool of collective work.
Although there are other sites that let publish information and give feedback to the audience, Wikis are becoming more popular maybe because sharing information through a community regarded on a specific topic is funnier.
How could you publish?
The users need only press down “edit” on the page that they want to edit and just write. If they would like to utilize any format could use the button located over the text.
You have to know…
One of the most famous encyclopedias came out in 2001 known as “Wikipedia” which one has more than 1000.000 of articles in English.
Some pages where you could obtain more information about:
Blogs are web pages where the author or authors publish about an interest topic; this information is putting out chronologically. A blog is a tool of collaborative work that allows people express their ideas, opinions or suggestions.
For this reason, blogs are used in education by teachers to sharing information, materials, downloads, links and more with the students, because it is an easy way to communicate, give opinions, recommendations, facilitate online discussions, collaboration and feedback as well; it can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization, talent and expertise; you could integrate videos, podcasts and images to do the process of teaching and learning dynamic and successful. The purpose is creating a group that engages and challenges their points of view using the last which is the technology.
Nowadays the technology is a necessity because it is in anywhere where you go, then the education has have to development and introduce it into the class; researching about the fastest, easiest and most effective methods of learning as blogs, microbloggings, wikis, etc.
I invite you to search through these sites and finding much information related with what blogs are and their importance in ESL:
