As you know, last week was a holiday and I couldn't choose my blog of the week. This week, I have only one winner because this blog is a great one and deserves a full review. So, let there be light in the blogosphere:
This weeks winner is (insert drum roll here):
Bengü Kağan with her fab blog Bengü Hodja and FabClass B21
This is a blog that has everything we need to make students both active and responsible learners. Bengü seems to have found the perfect balance between academic concern and leisure (which might not be leisure at all!!). She applies many strategies to attract the students to her blog and I believe she is successful.
Not only does she share her personal choices in terms of music and cinema, she also wants the students to participate and asks their choices as well. She demonstrates this by posting her favorites (movies and songs), but also shares the favorites of her students (Didar's Favorite).
On the right tab of the blog, you can find polls that are related to classroom issues (again in a humourous manner) and a list which is dedicated to students' favorites.
Another strategy she applies is to reflect classroom atmosphere in her blog by posting a picture of the classroom while students are working on something. Again she she shares her feelings with the classroom in a humourous way.
Bengü also manages to integrate a different piece of technology by using a speaking avatar created with Voki. She recorded her own voice to remind her students about something important or to make an announcement. In addition, she calls that section "hear me out" which I believe is a very good title for such a series of posts.
In conclusion, this blog is definitely a very good example for a class blog. You can find everything from Powerpoint and Prezi presentations to pictures and videos. All of them are somehow related to classroom teaching points and the students' lives. Isn't that what we should be doing: making connections with their lives?
Keep on blogging Bengü...
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