- To keep in close communication with your classmates and teacher, commenting and asking questions when necessary.
- To practise and improve your writing and critical thinking skills by regularly posting assignments to the blog and receiving peer and teacher feedback.
- To improve your reading speed and ability to guess unknown words as you scan through blog posts.
- To improve your ability to comprehend naturally spoken English by listening to short video clips as many times as you find necessary.
- To find sources of help for improving your academic skills.
- To share useful resources about social issues (films, readings, podcasts and so on).
- To increase your confidence in using social software.
Can you think of anything else you'd like to use this blog for? Your first assignment is to comment on the above ideas and add your own! This is due before class on Friday.
32 comments:
If this blog really helps us İt can be useful.
our class blog gives way to easier way to speak and share our opinions. I hope it will be good for us
I think blog will improve our English, as writing and reading. Also I believe that this blog would help us to think in English, which is a great improvement to me. Because when writing essays or academic texts, we also can think about the subject in Turkish, then translate to English but this semi-formal portal would help us organize our thoughts in a better way in English.
I hope this blog helps that I success economic.
blog is a nice communication way to share opinions.Thanks to our teacher that she has created a blog for us to enter blogs about subject.It will be useful to use this class blog.I believe that his blog will help us to improve our questioning skill....
This blog is a nice way to improve our English.I hope that it will be useful and we can be successful.
Seems nice and seems to be working fine,great idea,i wish luck to all of my friends
I believe that, this website which we will share several opinions will be useful. So thank you
i hope it will be good for us.it is the easiest way of learning
These are necessary things and very useful for us.If we do them and we are careful about them, we will improve by ourselves.I think they are enough for this class :) I do not add anything.I hope this year will be good for everyone.
i believe that this blog will help us to improve our english and also it's a way to show that we have made a process since the beginning...
As you have said in the blog, I think that this blog can really help us in order to enhance our english, writing, reading and listening skills. In this blog we can share our feelings and ideas about istructors, lectures and school. Threfore we can get over with the problems and challenges that we have faced by communicating with our friends and teachers. Moreover, this blog can give a chance to continue education and learning outside of the class in a more informal way. This blog serves different types of sources that are consisted of social issues and so they can assist us while doing our homeworks or researching. Hence I think tht it is part of experimental learning that Paulo Freire suggests in order to improve the relationship between class members and istructor and at the same time enhance academic skills.
in my opinion this blog help us to improve our Englısh. Thanks mrs. sonja.
I think using blog is an essential issue for us.Because it's an opportunity to learn how to communicate and share our opinions with others(such as;our classmates,our teacher).It will help us to improve our skills.On this way,we can improve our reading,writing skills.So,we would be more successsful students for writing academic texts.I want to thanks mrs.sonja to organize this blog.
I believe that this blog will help us about how we can improve our english and thinking skills. Also it will help us to communicate with our teacher. It is obvious that the class blog will improve our commentator skills and we are expected to comment our assesment on this blog.
I thınk this blog will be a big assistant for me because, my English is not enough to speak and write. It will provide writing, reading, speaking and comunication between us and with our lecturer. So I belive that my English will be good and I will speak English well. for that reason I thınk it will be useful, especially for me and also for my friends.:D for me the future will be shine!!
Firstly, it is very nice to have a blog. As it is known that, in this blog we can share our personal ideas and feelings. While reading other people's opinions, we can look at the situation from other sides. So, we make a brainstorming in this virtual world. I think, this helps us about critical thinking. Thinking, writing and reading in English is very useful for us. Thank you very much Sonja for all of these things.
I hope, this blog will help our english.
Through this blog, our communication will improve and we can share our opinions easily.
i think this blog will very useful for us.
ı think that this blog will help us to improve our english.also our readıng,listening and writting skılls will develope.in addition we can communicate with our friend easily.in short this blog will be useful.
hello everybody ı want to tell that this blog will useful to share information with other people...çav..
Class blog entries will be beneficial for our writing skills. The class blog entries enable us to express our ideas and suggestions in a way that is not usual for us and it is more likely an example for student-based learning. The class blog keep all class members in contact any time out of the class and they can share and develop ideas by reading each other’s responses. If there would be anything (any word, concept or term) that they do not know, they will gain a tendency to search and learn because it won’t be difficult or time-taking to search since they will already be online. Additionally, I believe that using class blog will increase our confidence in using social software and since it is in English, it will help our English improve.
ı think this blog will be useful for communicating with our lecturer and each other.İt gives an opportunity to improve our academic writing and reading skills.we can share our opinions and views about social issues and also we can comment on opinion of each one of us so it helps to improve our critical thinking ability furthermore we will recieve feedback from our lecturer and ın this way we can learn the deficiency in our english or mistakes in our commnets and then we can fix them. briefly ıt is a good way to express ourselves in an effective and right way. ı hope everything is going to be great for us in this semester.
Deniz (Dalgıç), you made a really good point I hadn't thought of - that it will take less time to check new words because students will already be using the Internet. And I hope you will all be motivated to understand each others' posts and comments!
Serdar,
perhaps you meant to say 'ciao'? I love your 'Turkified' version...
:-D
This blog may help us to communicate with our teacher and as a result of this connection; we can solve the problems about our course easily.
I think that having a blog for only econ 149 students is very useful because we can share our ideas and feelings about the lecture and school. Also, it can help us to improve our english in writing because our lecturer can give us the writing assigments and if we do the homeworks that are given us, we can improve ourself. Moreover, there are lots of resources that are useful for us. We can find and share several information about our lecture. Therefore, the blog helps us about our course if we use it.
I think we have to check the class blog a lot so that we can see what other people say and we can learn more about our class.We can get use to writing in English with this blog and the journal.We can share links, books, films that we like with our classmates and we can learn more.We can share our opinions and have discussions about our ideas.
This blog helps us to share our opinions with friends whose lecturer is Sonja.That's mean, this blog's members are more than 50 and we can communicate with our classmates and the others outside of the school. This blog is also useful to improve our skills especially reading and writing ones. I hope this blog will be more useful for us.
this blog helps to improve our English.It proves to establish a dialogue with eachother.I hope that this will be beneficial and necessary for us.
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