Friday 7 March 2014

 Nelta Choutari is a monthly ELT web magazine. Through this magazine the Nepalese ELT communities promote professional development through networking and ELT conversation among Nepalese teachers and their moderators around the world.They post their articles on a blog and  accept comments on their network for the sake of improving education and Nepalese teachers .

I think if we want setting our own website, we should decide first for who it will be,  for English teachers only or English teachers and their students or all teachers in different fields or for all people?  Will it handle educational themes only or will it include public matters or both of them? Will it be in English only or include Arabic writings as well? I think we should consider all these suggestions first then we will design a good survey discovering what our viewers would like to see or read about in the website. 
 However,  if I assume that it will be for English  writings I think I have found some useful websites to be published on it:

** (#edtecheg on Twitter)
--I think this website is an important clue for understanding the language of online social communities. It is important for the young and the old as well. It is published on:
http://balimaha.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/The-five-languages-of-social-media-engagement-secrets-to-online-communities/

--Also this website introduces much benefit for all teachers in different grades from kindergarten to college. But as I'm an English teacher, I want to benefit my students and colleagues who want to improve their students' abilities in reading and writing skills in addition to other interactive skills (e.g. It introduces eight workshops with supportive videos about the needed steps for teaching writing).


** edc moocs artefacts
These precious pieces of artefacts are created by moocs participants.  They address the useful merits of using technology in general and in education specifically through videos, blogs, valuable articles, visual elements. Some of them discuss their fears of depending on digital education only.
This blog describe how to explain the use of educational blogs in few seconds.

A 60 Seconds Guide to the Use of Blogging in Education


                                                                                                     

4 comments:

  1. Hi Mervyn
    Your links are very useful

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  2. Hi Mervat
    I think Maha gave us time to have a look on other websites to decide how our website will be formed .We have to put our vision, and our plan before doing any step.

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  3. Dr Maha asked us to choose the appropriate websites, and links we find most useful to be included in our website, and she directed us to certain websites to explore and choose from them or from any other sites but the plan or the vision will be decided after that when we agree on the addressed people and the suitable survey.

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  4. Dear Mervat, good first look, but you will need to go deeper.
    First, a twitter hashtag is not a website :)
    Second, a web PAGE is not the same as a website, you need to be clear with your users.
    Third, you forgot to link the edcmooc artifacts page!

    Thanks

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