August 09, 2009

HELP WANTED - THE PUSH: World languages education

THE PUSH continues... So far we're up to:

  • 6 Social Studies education blogs (really? that's all?),
  • 9 English / language arts education blogs,
  • 17 science education blogs, and
  • 24 math education blogs.

Thanks, everyone!

Today this initiative gets harder as we begin to move away from "the core" and focus on WORLD LANGUAGES EDUCATION. What are some Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Latin, and/or other language education blogs that P-12 language educators should be reading? We need both elementary and secondary examples. If you know of some, please add them to the Moving Forward wiki. 

Why are we doing this?

  • To identify blogs that P-12 teachers can use to initially seed (or expand) their RSS readers
  • To create a single location where P-12 educators can go to see excellent subject-oriented educational blogging
  • To highlight excellent disciplinary blogging that deserves larger audiences
  • To learn from disciplines other than our own and get ideas about our own teaching and/or blogging

Thanks in advance for helping with this initiative. If we all contribute, two weeks from now we should have a bevy of excellent subject-specific blogs to which we can all point. Please spread the word about THE PUSH!

Aug 9, 2009 11:11:41 AM | Blogging, Pre-Service Preparation, Staff Development

2 Comments

1.

Hi ya Scott,

See this great list of global language blogs:

lexiophiles">http://www.lexiophiles.com/language-blog-toplist/top-100-language-blogs-2009-nominated-blogs-language-teaching">lexiophiles nominations

The results were also published and divided up into categories but am very sure this page will give a fuller list for the wiki.

I'll pop into the wiki later in the week to help out with the list of ESL/EFL blogs.

Take care,
Karenne

Posted by: Karenne Sylvester | August 09, 2009 at 12:56 PM

The comments to this entry are closed.

NEXT POST
Is pre-loading a Twitter account for a principal a good idea? Tom Whitby had an interesting idea: create a Twitter account for a school administrator that was pre-loaded with 50 people to follow. Beth Still liked the idea and blogged about it. I have some hesitancy, however, about the concept, despite Tom and Beth’s good intentions and despite my inclinations to...
PREVIOUS POST
HELP WANTED - THE PUSH: Art education blogs THE PUSH is getting HARDER as we move away from the “core” areas. Yesterday we only identified 2 (yes, 2) excellent language education blogs. We’re doing much better in other areas: 9 Social Studies education blogs, 13 English / language arts education blogs, 19 science education blogs, and 26 math...