Rasha blogging and voice commenting to enhance esl students' critical thinking skills

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Blogging and Voice Commenting to Enhance ESL Students' Critical Thinking Skills Presentation By: Dr. Rasha Osman

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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

Synthesis (summary)Critique (Commentary)Paraphrase DebateConnecting Reflecting

Two new techniques:

Blogging

Voice Commenting

What is Blogging?

What is Voice Commenting?

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.

http://htieng.blogspot.com.eg/2015/10/one-of-most-necessary-hobbies-to-do-in.html

http://mynewassignment44.blogspot.com.eg/2015/12/how-to-run-company-with-almost-no-rules.html

http://a7medsalem1.blogspot.com.eg/

Voice Commenting:

Media Added to the Blog

WhatsApp Voice Message

Example:

Exercise:

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