Fun with English – Showcasing local stories

After 5-6 months of blogvangelism, not sure how many of our workshop participants has actually realised the use of edublogs in their teaching and learning. If you are one of them reading this post and you have been/started introducing blogs to your students, do let us know 😉
As I have shared with Jeanne the other day, (edu)blogs, unlike other edtech, can quite easily be integrated into existing classroom practices. So from now on, we are going to embark on another dimension of our sharing, to scout for local Singapore examples of teachers who too have experimented with edublogs.
So, to get our “Showcasing local stories” series going, the first one that I am going to share is the “Fun with English” blog, by Mrs Letitia Tan from Beatty Sec School.
Mrs L Tan is an EL teacher. Gathered from her blog, she would like to “interest students in the eng language” via “spontaneous writing in a more creative and casual way”. Great!
She has employed the students 1-to-1 approach of using blogs on Blogger.com, so in her blog, she has linked up to the blogs of classes 3E2 and 3E4 students.
To start everything going in the right perspective, she has set ground rules for the students to follow. Read on if you are interested to find out more!

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