International Classroom Blogging

Still on the topic of blogging, we now move to international uses. The first blog I discovered, entitled "El Blog para appender inglés" (which translates to: "The blog for learning English") is a site based out of Madrid, Spain. This site is provide supplemental instruction in the English language to the students of her class. She has her lessons linked in the blog, with mp3 audio tracks giving examples of spoken English, as well having written examples.This is Mónica pictured to the left.

The other bog that I found is a German based blog, called "Informeller Blog". To be honest I cannot understand German, but the site has links for extra information and is constructed very well. It seems to focusing on the growing trend in "e-learning", giving many links on the subject. Pictured below is a girl using a computer for class (presumably):


I feel that these two blogs show that the trend of introducing the internet and other tools like that into the classroom is not just found in our country. It is clear that other countries are doing the same things that we are; in some cases (like Japan) they beat us to the punch.

Of course, the technologies are not merely limited to the Internet. As in our country, projectors and smart boards, as well as clicker systems, are being introduced all over the globe in an attempt to aid teachers. The internet, however, can prove to be the most accessible to the most amount of people; after all, dial-up internet (or the 56K modem) can be used in most areas, even if high speed is unavailable. Plus, with the trends of continuing to add computers into school, there will soon be no excuse as to why computers should not be accessible, and, most importantly, used.