My name is Wadha (Wadheha according to my passport) a teacher of English from Kuwait. I currently am the head the English language Department at a school called Farea Sec. School for girls. I'm also a holder of a master's degree in Interpreting and Translation. I'm extremely happy to be part of this program where people from different parts of the world are sharing their experiences and viewpoints. Everyday I'm learning something about a new tool of technology, method of teaching or even a different culture I was ignorant of.
Actually, I've always enjoyed blogging but I mainly blog in Arabic (with very few English posts that can be read here) so this is basically my first all-English blog. I use wordpress.com to blog about Human Rights-related issues, books/movies reviews and to raise awareness. Being a teacher of English, for almost 8 years now, I honestly never employed blogging as a tool for teaching English or even for self-reflection purposes. I have my own journal where I keep my day-to-day observations, feelings, experiences and discoveries but I keep all that in a written form. While creating this blog, I was thinking of ways through which I can use blogging to teach my students or even solve work-related problems.
I am waiting for the suggestions and contributions of the rest of the group. If there's anything I can help you with, guys, then please never hesitate to contact me.
Warm regards,
Wadheha (AKA Wadha) Al-Dousari
Kuwait
Hi Wadha
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you here. I have never applied blogging as a teaching tool as well. If that is recommended by our teachers from the Webskills course I would become curious to know how would blogging be effective in the classroom. My students are not very good at using technology. I would become concern if it would take a lot of time to train them.
Exactly, Albana. I am eager to know how it is being applied. I once read an article about using blogs as reflective journal to help students improve their emotional intelligence. But then again, let's wait and see how other teachers apply such tools.
DeleteHappy to see your reply here :)
Hello there!
ReplyDeleteI am really happy to be part of this experience. I am looking forward to learning from you all!!!
Same here Adriano! It's really an enlightening experience. Thanks for passing by :)
DeleteI have used a blog before with my students, when we had to do a project about Australia and the results were really good. The problem was that they did not contribute a lot to the blog. Next time I will make them be an effective part of it!
ReplyDeleteI paste here the address of the blog just in case you like to see it:
http://englishshowroomadriano.blogspot.com.es/
This is exactly what I fear. Students are not interested in writing long posts or comments here. So topics have to be extremely interesting for them.
DeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI felt like reading your other blogs but I'm unable to read Arabic. As you have rightly mentioned we can use blogs to teach pupils/students provided that they access it regularly and respond to it. One ought to have a habit of learning from a blog or e-related method. It is good to share the knowledge and experience with each other and your offer is really appreciative.
Esala(Sri Lanka)
Thank you, Esala. This generation has been introduced to the micro-blogging services like twitter and instgram, so to blog the traditional way and write long posts is really a challenge and we've got to motivate the students so as to get them blogging or contributing to blogs.
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Wadha
Hello Wadha,
ReplyDeleteYour blog is lovely, and I really enjoyed reading your reflective post. I hope you enjoy using your blog this term. Well done!
Donna
Thank you Donna! I really appreciate it :)
DeleteHello Wadha,
ReplyDeleteYour blog is lovely and I like reading it. Nice meeting you in here.
Yaowapa
Thank you so much Yaowapa! I'm really happy to see you here.
Deletehello Wadha,
ReplyDeleteYour blog looks very lovely. I went to a girl's high school myself and and now I am teaching in a boy's high school. I read that you introduced "ballon debate" in your class in the nicenet discussion on Websearching. I have been coaching a debate team myself (my first time) and I am very interested in learning about how you train your students?
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ReplyDeleteYiling
Taiwan
Hi Wadha,
ReplyDeleteYour blog is very nice and I like reading. Nice meeting you.
Mohammad Azizul Haque
Bangladesh