Blog Resources

• All About Blogs
• Autonolearner
• Bee-coming a Webhead
• Blog – EFL
• Blogging for ELT
• Create Your Own ESL/EFL Weblogs
• Creating a Writing Course Utilizing Class and Student Blogs
• Dan’s Blog Resources
• Dear Ai
• ESL Blogs – info and examples
• Getting Started With Student Blogs
• Language Lab Unleashed
• Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower
• Moving at the Speed of Creativity
• Pain in the English
• Reconstruction – the Blog Issue
• Teaching Teachers
• The Linguist
• Thinking and Writing Wrinkles
• Weblogg-ed
• Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

Special:

• Video on blogs, wikis, and podcasts

Document:

• Marlen’s Handout from Nara JALT, April 2007

Reference List for Marlen’s Nara JALT Handout:

• Crystal, D. (2001). Language and the Internet. UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Devitt, A. (2004). Writing Genres. USA: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Landis, M. (2002). Language and literacy, digitally speaking. Topics in Language Disorders, 22, 4, 55-69.
• “Literacy”. (2006). Wikipedia.com. Retrieved September 23^rd, 2006 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy
• Pattison, R. (1982). On literacy. The politics of the word from Homer to the age of rock. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr.
• Schwandt, T. (2001). Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry. USA: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Stein, D. (2006). The website as a domain-specific genre. language@internet. Retrieved November 27^th, 2006 from http://www.languageatinternet.de/articles/LangInternetSpecialVolume1/374/
• Swales, J. (1990). Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wenger, E. (2006). Communties of Practice. Ewenger.com. Retrieved on December 1^st, 2006 from http://www.ewenger.com/theory/