Benbow,+Kim

Activity 4-C-3: Blogging Lesson Plans

This is a lesson I have used with my third year Japanese language students. This lesson is the first of three blog-based activities that this class will undertake this term. Students will:
 * Student Blogging Lesson Plan **
 * Goals **:
 * 1) Create a personal blog to use for Japanese language study.
 * 2) Create a post showing basic information in the target language introducing their home country.
 * 3) Compare basic geographical and cultural information about their country with Japan.
 * 4) Develop their IT literacy skills by using a blog in the target language.
 * 5) Provide a link to their blog entry.

1. I have already posted an exemplar post on our class blog page. 2. Students will read an initial entry about Japan in class and do elementary comprehension exercises. 3. Using the entry as a model, students will compose their own piece about their own country as a follow-up homework assignment. The class has students who are citizens of many countries, so not everyone will be presenting the same information about the US. 4. Students will then have 1 class period in a computer lab to word process their response and post as a blog entry on our class moodle site. My exemplar post for student reference is located here. Posts will be evaluated for
 * Procedures and Activities: **
 * Evaluation: **
 * 1) Timely presentation of their response to the handout questions, in the form of a post to their own blog (5)
 * 2) Correct use of characters and grammar(10).
 * 3) Accuracy of information posted (5).
 * 4) Posting a link to their entry in the form of a comment on the exemplar page (5).