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Latest blog post: ELT08 Innovation Awards

The BBC Learning English Blogs - which run on the platform Ali and I developed - won in the UK category of the ELT08 Innovation Awards.

The Learning English Blogs transform the concept of blogging from an individual pursuit into a collaborative learning process.

The blogs retain a rich vein of individual expression since the ‘student blogger’ writes about topics of interest to them. A ‘teacher blogger’ prepares posts in response to the student’s writings giving feedback on good language use, specific student mistakes and typical language errors, all within the dynamic of a content-based, personalised and meaningful dialogue.

A global audience contributes to the learning by completing the teacher tasks, providing words of encouragement to the student and giving their opinions on not only language use but also the topics under discussion – a rich source of additional material for the teacher.

This process results in a simple one-to-one blogging relationship creating a one-to-many learning environment, that continues long after each blog post.

British Council website

You might remember this similar post a couple of years ago.

Posted on 10 March | Comment on this post | Read more posts

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Weblogs & Diaries

  • 1820 - "These Are Not Scottish Football fans" (16 May 2008)
  • Pierrefeu - "Some time later..." (21 April 2008)
  • Terrid - "Transgression Park, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh" (03 February 2008)
  • Malaga CF Match Reports - "Copa del Rey: Racing vs. Malaga" (03 January 2008)
  • Julia Sutherland - "Two whole, magnificent days in a ROW, people!" (04 April 2007)

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