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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Activity 13: Blogs on education

Here are the blogs that we analyzed before creating our own.

This blog is aimed to learners of Korean who want to improve their grammar skills or simply are interested in starting to learn a new language. The blog features a main section in which the content is displayed and a side bar including several applications such as: A video bar, links to online dictionaries, links to listening and speaking practice websites, a “word of the day” application, a PDF version of their grammar content available to download and other links to personal and miscellaneous webs. The sidebar also features a list of sections divided by content (grammar points) for both beginners and advanced learners and a list of special expressions. The posts in the blog are also categorized by the use of tags (tag words) listed on the side bar to facilitate the navigation of the web.

‘Japoneando’ is a blog created by a Spaniard, dedicated to learners of Japanese language. Their lessons are mainly based on video classes and their posts do not include much written content. Their sidebar includes a list of the people that follow them on Facebook and links to other blogs on the same matter. This web is aimed to its spread through social webs such as Twitter and Facebook.

It is a very useful blog because for each unit of vocabulary it links you to different activities which are quite interactive. This makes the learning interesting since kids have to use a computer. We find the same thing with the grammar stuff provided in the blog.
The blog is, generally, quite colorful, making it attractive to the kids. It is divided in units, which makes it very easy to use since it is clearly structured. It is very visual thanks to the several videos and images it uses.

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