HOW DO YOU USE INTERNET TO TEACH BUSINESS ENGLISH?

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Permalink Reply by Paula on May 24, 2009 at 7:03pm

I just forgot to ask, have you used any wiki or blog with your business english students?
thanks again.
Paula

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Ketsdever on May 25, 2009 at 9:39am

Bump.

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Permalink Reply by Paula on May 25, 2009 at 6:05pm

Hello Nathan,
Please be more specific with your suggestion. I would like to know about your exoperience.
Thanks
Paula

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Ketsdever on May 25, 2009 at 7:01pm

Perhaps this begs the question of how much technology access your students have.

I think creating a classroom dashboard is a start. Net Vibes allows you to do this--you could also just add in widgets you created on Google with RSS feeds. Or you could create your own customized Alltop. The last might be the quickest and easiest. I think this is helpful because it creates a shared place online and a place to interact.

You could even add a feed of your Google favorites or delicious favorites on a particular topic. This would allow you to customize the area.

You might allow/encourage your students to create their own Alltops based on their personal and professional interests.

I would initially experiment with business based blogs. You can of course encourage them to use:
a) a platform like Wordpress.org or
b) collaboratively post on a Ning network.

I would take a minute or two to look over the headlines at http://education.alltop.com/ or perhaps the Google results of "education 2.0 blogs"

Paula..I'm going to see if I can get some more results from the community here.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Ketsdever on May 26, 2009 at 2:19am

This isn't a specific answer to your question, however http://www.edutopia.org/ is pretty sweet for providing ideas and best practices. These more general ideas can be re-applied in the context of english, business, or something else which resonates with your students.

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Permalink Reply by Paula on June 1, 2009 at 6:25pm

Thank you very much for your very useful suggestions. I will have a look and edutopia and try to apply some of the alternatives. Let's see what other suggestions I can get from the community.
Thanks

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