keeping an fnd blog

Keeping a diary/blogging? | Kenneth Dickson | October 21st, 2002

Given the popularity of blogging these days, and the need in FND to keep a diary, I was wondering if anyone had tried to use a Blogger.com Blog to do that!

Wonder what the drawbacks of that would be... comments?

Regards,

Kenneth

Re: Keeping a diary/blogging? | Jerry Talandis Jr. | October 25th, 2002

Hello Kenneth,

This is Jerry, from Toyama Japan. I've never tried Blogs before, and until a few weeks ago never even heard of them. But, I've followed up on your link below and will try it out as an experiment to see if this format helps me keep a diary. I really don't like keeping journals, but for the DE module we must do so. I'm hoping that my love for typing and the easy accessibility of the blog will make it easier to keep up with the writing. Still, my main problem is that with journals I usually end up writing just a bunch of useless mental-streaming mess, that after a while, I always lose interest. I'm making this blog public, hoping that this will force me to be more to the point.

Thanks for the tip.

Jerry

Re: Keeping a diary/blogging? | Kenneth Dickson | October 28th, 2002

Dear All,

I found this article on blogging in ESL:

Mad Blogs and Englishmen
Jim Duber

In Bengal to move at all
Is seldom, if ever, done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.

Noel Coward (1899-1973), British playwright, actor, composer.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (song) (1930), published in Collected Sketches and Lyrics (1931).

A short form of "weblog", blogs seem to be appearing nearly everywhere on the Internet. The sudden popularity of these web-based diaries or personal journals may be a little hard to understand at first, but upon closer inspection, their ubiquity should not be surprising at all. They are, after all, exceptionally easy to use and there are many no-cost hosting services available. Although yet to be embraced by the online TESL/TEFL community, I believe they deserve serious consideration by instructors as course supplements and as textbook supplements by authors and publishers.
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Best Wishes

Kenneth

 

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