Blogging and Voice Commenting to Enhance ESL Students' Critical Thinking Skills
Presentation By: Dr. Rasha Osman
What is Critical Thinking ?
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information (The Critical Thinking
Community, 2016(.
How could teachers help in improving students critical thinking skills?
AnalysisCompare and ContrastOpen-ended QuestionsEvaluation
Blogging Definition:A blog is a journal that is a mixture of a person’s life, hybrid diary. It is a website containing a writer’s or a group of writers’ own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having links other websites.(See Dictionary.com 2017)
What is needed for using blogs successfully?
PlatformContent CommunicationRubric Evaluation
Platforms for creating blogs:
Blogger Wordpress
Types of Blogs:
Class BlogStudent BlogResource Blog
Steps to Create a blog:
Open your gmail.Click google apps.Go down till you see blogger icon.Click on the hyperlinkClick on the triangle beside your previous blog.Click new blogWrite the name Choose the temple.The link is important for sending invitations, sending on facebook.