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ELT Signposts 2005 September 9-11, Brno To Blog or Not to Blog Pavel Kurfürst Institute of Foreign Languages Palacký University in Olomouc

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ELT Signposts 2005 September 9-11, Brno

To Blog or Not to Blog

Pavel Kurfürst

Institute of Foreign Languages Palacký University in Olomouc

Language pedagogy cannot and should not be immunne to the advantages the Internet offers – in information, in resources and in opportunities for global communication.

S. Windeatt, D. Hardisty, D. Eastment: The InternetOxford University Press 2000, p. 1

Computer literacy in the Czech Republic

29

28

38

37

19

4

24

74

13

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Vzaměstnaneckém

poměru

Soukromýpodnikatel bezzaměstnanců

Soukromýpodnikatel s 1 až

9 zaměstnanci

Soukromýpodnikatel s 10 avíce zaměstnanci

Nezaměstnaný

Důchodce(nepracující)

V domácnosti

Student, žák,učeň

J iné

Počítačová gramotnost podle zaměstnanecké pozice

ZÁKLAD: Všichni respondenti (18-60), n=15234

ZDROJ : STEM/MARK, Výzkum informační gramotnosti, 8/2005

37

33

20

19

42

20

29

26

33

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

J azyky

Matematika

Dějepis

Literatura

Fyzika

Zeměpis

Biologie

Tělesnávýchova

J iný předmět

Počítačová gramotnost podle oblíbeného školního předmětu

ZÁKLAD: Všichni respondenti (15+), n=16344

ZDROJ : STEM/MARK, Výzkum informační gramotnosti, 8/2005

Computer literacy in the Czech Republic

63

43

32

27

26

19

14

9

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

<= 23

24 - 28

29 - 33

34 - 38

39 - 43

44 - 48

49 - 53

54+

Počítačová gramotnost dle věkových skupinZÁKLAD: Všichni respondenti (18-60), n=15234

ZDROJ : STEM/MARK, Výzkum informační gramotnosti 08/2005

95

85

83

82

80

70

60

49

Podíl PG dle věku Umí pracovat s PC43

80

50

6

73

42

21

6

9

6

9

5

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

15+

15 - 17 let

18 - 60 let

61+

Doma

Práce

Škola/kolej

Knihovna

Internetovákavárna

J iné

Pořízenínového

Vylepšenístávajícího

Využí

Mís

to

Plá

ny

I nternet nebo elektronická pošta

ZÁKLAD: Všichni respondenti (15+), n=16344

ZDROJ : STEM/MARK, Výzkum informační gramotnosti, 8/2005

Computer literacy in the Czech Republic

33

Učitel - základní/ střední stupeň

Průměr v celé populaci

Podíl celkově počítačové gramotných

ZDROJ : STEM/MARK 08/2005, Výzkum informační gramotnosti

21

79

12

21

37

30

1

3

39

57

87

83

Muž

Žena

18 - 28

29 - 38

39 - 48

49 - 60

základní

vyučen/a

Počítač

Internet

Sociodemografický profil

Afinita

New phenomena – new words

early 1990’s (public use of the internet): online diaries, personal journals, logs

Dec. 1997 John Barger robotwisdom.com:(World Wide) Web + log weblog

May 1999 Peter Merholz peterme.com:abridged to blog n.

blog v. (we)blogger n. post n. blog + stratosphere blog(o)sphere n.

New phenomena – new words

OALD, 7th edition, 2005

New phenomena – new words

OALD, 7th edition, 2005

New phenomena – new words

OALD, 7th edition, 2005

New phenomena – new words

Blogger.com

free blog hosting service 1999: started by Pyra Labs 2001: one of The Guardian’s

The Seven Wonders of the Web (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon etc.)

2003: bought by Google.com July 2005: 14 million blogs

How many blogs are there?

estimated 70 million (July 2005) MSN Spaces 15M, Blogger 14M,

LiveJournal 9M etc. number of blogs doubles every 5 months 1 new blog/second; 80,000/day about 50% blank or dormant nearly 1 million new posts/day

Blogs – Journalists

Christopher Allbritton (freelance, ex AP and NY Daily News)back-to-iraq.com

Stuart Hughes (freelance, BBC News)stuarthughes.blogspot.com

Kevin Sites (freelance, NBC News)kevinsites.net

Blogs – Writers

Cory Doctorow (sci-fi writer)craphound.com

William Gibson (cyberpunk/sci-fi writer)williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp

Noam Chomsky (linguist, political activist)blog.zmat.org/ttt

Blogs – Celebrities

David Duchovny (actor, director, writer)lionsgatedirectors.com/duchovny

Moby (musician)moby.com/journal

Anna Kournikova (ex-tennis player, model)kournikova.com/journal

Blogs in Czech

Ladislav “Laco” Bittner (IT journalist)laco.bloguje.cz

Zdeněk Škromach (minister)zdenek-skromach.cz

“Ostravak” since Dec. 2004, 800,000 visits, 5,000/day ostravak.bloguje.cz

More about blogs

Technorati Blog Finder(tracking 16.7M blogs, search)technorati.com

The Blog Herald (online journal)blogherald.com

Miloš “Medius” Čermák (journalist – Reflex, Lidové noviny)extra.cz

Free blog hosting – English

blogger.com spaces.msn.com livejournal.com blogeasy.com weblogpage.com bloxster.net etc.

Free blog hosting – Czech

bloguje.cz blog.cz blog.lide.cz brouzdej.cz etc.

A new blog in a few minutes

blogger.com create an account

• user name & password

• title of the blog

• graphic template write / edit new posts

• add photographs

• include hyperlinks

As a means of communication, the Internet allows students around the world to interact with one another cheaply, quickly and reliably, opening up the classroom to the real world in a way which has never before seen possible.

S. Windeatt, D. Hardisty, D. Eastment: The InternetOxford University Press 2000, p. 6

Blogs in ELT

other people’s blogs

• source of information, amusement

• search, read, discuss, comment your (groups of) students’ blogs

• class / school journals or notice boards

• projects

• personal diaries

Blogs in ELT

teachers’ blogs

• less formal communication with students

• additional materials, photographs, links

• internet presentation of departments

• cooperation, projects

The Internet is constantly developing and presents many possibilities for language learning that have hardly been explored. Use your imagination, try things out, and take the occassional risks!

S. Windeatt, D. Hardisty, D. Eastment: The InternetOxford University Press 2000, p. 14

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