Today’s post is going to be dedicated to reflect about the following concepts: teacher-students electronic communication, textspeak or digitalk, and websites and blog-building resources for teachers.
Electronic communication between teachers and students is stablished through the use of electronic mail (email), text messaging, teacher or classroom websites, blogs, online discussions, and wikis. In my experience, I think the most appropriate and convenient type of electronic communication is electronic mail, as it allows to first create drafts, and you can attach files. Data from emails is easily transferred to other formats or forwarded. text messaging is seemed still as “informal”, but I find it to be very efficient, and it featured options for quick response or feedback. On the other hand, textspeak or digitalk, does not promote the good use of the English language, but it does give room to student groups, such as adolescents, to express as friends do, using abbreviation, symbols, and pictures. It does not mean that the communication is not going to be thoughtful, but instead it is going to flow freely.
Websites and blog-building resources for teachers, as it is to be expected, goes from basic to fancy. There are some free, and others that you have to pay. I would choose a free, reassembled format that still offer the what an educator need to communicate with students: emails, online discussion board, instant messaging, and discussion forums. I would try to stay away from the .coms, since advertising can be distracting and inappropriate for students.
References:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
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