Blogs: A Home Base for Web 2.0 Lessons (January 19-25)

Participants will discuss two short readings on effective lesson planning and consider how blogs can be used to host online activities. They will review example lesson plans for using blogs in lessons and share their own lesson-planning ideas on their blogs. Participants will also visit each other's blogs and leave comments.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of Week 2, participants will be able to:

1) Discuss lesson-planning in terms of the weekly readings in the Yahoo! Group.

2) Appraise examples of lesson plans from the literature and select or adapt a model for the lesson-plan presentation.  

3) Post a list of at least 3 potential uses of blogs for online activities on their blogs. 

4) Assess other participant's blogs and respond to the feedback given to themselves.

Activities

In this week, participants will:

• Comment on the short weekly readings: 'What to Consider When Writing a Lesson Plan' and '10 Steps to Developing a Quality Lesson Plan' in the YG. 
• View tutorial on setting up their blog
• Set up their blog
• Send their blog URL address to the YG
• Brainstorm ideas on how to use a blog in their lessons in the YG
• View sample lesson plans
• Develop their own lesson plan for using blogs
• Post their lesson plan to your blog
• Join one of the Saturday sessions
• Give feedback on how the week was by answering 3 simple questions 

• Self-check the learning outcomes for Week 2

EXTENSION:

     Comment on optional reading, 'Write a Lesson Plan Guide.'