Are you afraid of reading newspaper and bored of writing up a feedback?
Now you have no need to go through a thick pile of newspaper for news. You can gain access to online news easily. You will find it lots of fun to write and post your ideas after reading the news on your blog. Most important of all, you will be able to share your ideas with your blog mates getting spontaneous feedback from them. How encouraging it will be! Why don’t you give it a try?
For more ideas, please read this.
Curriculum integration: News Comment on a blog
Newspaper cutting
Traditionally, newspaper cutting requires students physically cut and paste the newspaper article on their assignment. If you ask students to write news comments using their blogs, they can write their feedback, comments in the blog. Here is an example. The link of the newspaper article is also shown in the same post. You can embed the news link and paste to your blog and start commenting on it. A lot of online newspaper (MingPao) and websites (Yahoo HK) offer instant news blogging function. You can click the blog button at the end of the news and blog right away.
Students can keep all their work in a blog nicely and tidily. They will not lose it again and it will become their learning portfolio.
Discussion
What are other advantages of doing news review using blogs?
Are you afraid of reading newspaper and bored of writing up a feedback?
Now you have no need to go through a thick pile of newspaper for news. You can gain access to online news easily. You will find it lots of fun to write and post your ideas after reading the news on your blog. Most important of all, you will be able to share your ideas with your blog mates getting spontaneous feedback from them. How encouraging it will be! Why don’t you give it a try?
For more ideas, please read this.
Curriculum integration: News Comment on a blog
Newspaper cutting
Traditionally, newspaper cutting requires students physically cut and paste the newspaper article on their assignment. If you ask students to write news comments using their blogs, they can write their feedback, comments in the blog. Here is an example. The link of the newspaper article is also shown in the same post. You can embed the news link and paste to your blog and start commenting on it. A lot of online newspaper (MingPao) and websites (Yahoo HK) offer instant news blogging function. You can click the blog button at the end of the news and blog right away.
Students can keep all their work in a blog nicely and tidily. They will not lose it again and it will become their learning portfolio.
Discussion
What are other advantages of doing news review using blogs?
