Blogging for Makassed

Congratulations to Mrs. Samira and her students at Makassed School Ali bin Abi Talib for their pioneering work in setting up blogs for additional communication outside the classroom and over the summer. She gathered up twenty or so of her students, who had the most experience with computers, from her different classes to attend a two-hour session Wednesday morning at the school’s computer lab. By the end of that time, each student walked out with new accounts at blogger.com, newly created blogs, and a set of basic skills for managing postings, comments and links. Many of the students, with a wide variety of computer skills, were already uploading pictures to their blogs, editing their personal profiles and sending comments to each others’ blogs.

The students who attended the workshop now have the responsibility of explaining to the other students in their classes how to become successful, productive bloggers, and I’m sure they’ll do a great job. (Let’s give Mrs. Samira and her students some time to get acquainted with the variety of applications these new tools can have, and maybe after some time, we can take a look at some of them. Bravo!)
NB: Makassed Schools in Beirut were the first to host the workshop on Using Technology in the Language Classroom, with an impressive turnout of forty plus teachers, in March, before we were posting pictures and updates of recent workshops. We didn’t forget that day, and applaud your teachers and students for applying what they’ve learned.