More student blog sites

With this class I first discussed the reason for keeping a journal or diary. The students were very good and came up with all or most of the reasons that I had anticipated.... namely, to preserve the memory of a time or series of events, to share your experiences with family or other interested readers, to practice writing fluency, and to watch writing progress.

I then gave them three team reading activities using excerpts from a journal that I had kept from an experience I had had overseas. We discussed what the writer had described, and compared it in a class discussion with the students' experiences.

The theme for the week was food, so I suggested that the students began their first entry on food in NZ (we are not renowned for our food specialities!) A fascinating discussion ensued, and this provided impetus for setting up a blog and writing. My instructions to the students were to go and look at other student blog sites before designing their own, but they didn't bother to look at other sites; they were too keen to set up their own and begin writing!

Here are the blog sites of this particular class.

www.fredbf.blogspot.com
www.hamiltonlife2005.blogspot.com
www.chikafavorite.blogspot.com
www.cnbenlu.blogspot.com
www.yukakonagata.blogspot.com
www.genteel0.blogspot.com
www.uvsjordan.blogspot.com
www.jeonjaeyeol.blogspot.com
www.beginsomethingwithme.blogspot.com
www.sunnys-dream.blogspot.com
www.koreagood.blogspot.com
www.gorgeouskate.blogspot.com

Ss who have now left the course.
http://www.janis-jottings.blogspot.com/
http://www.kimyw703.blogspot.com/
http://www.thanyapha.blogspot.com/
http://www.mic-student.blogspot.com/
http://www.momotutsu.blogspot.com/
www.sanaesays.blogspot.com
www.braziliankiwi.blogspot.com
www.janet-luo.blogspot.com
www.akiko-life-in-nz.blogspot.com
www.majedalsinan.blogspot.com
www.kimminah.blogspot.com
www.nana-ilets.blogspot.com
www.tsumagari.blogspot.com
www.ji-ij.blogspot.com
www.show-zone.blogspot.com
www.ohoooooh.blogspot.com
www.yujunishappy.blogspot.com
www.choco-by-the-kiwi.blogspot.com
http://www.hiperz.blogspot.com/