One of the beneficial things of the internet is that you can follow blogs or websites for getting new informantion and interesting ideas about many different things. However, following various blogs and websites makes it difficult to catch up with the recent content of them. In this case, let me tell you about the RSS(Really Simple Syndication)feed as a solution for that. It is a format that keeps you informed about the continually changing contents of the blogs and websites so that you do not have to visit every single blog and website to see what is new, instead you can see all of them on one page.
There are many RSS Reader options available on the internet
that you can either download or use online. I prefer using an online service
which is called FeedReader. You can sign
up for it or just use your Google/Facebook account to sign in. Then, you write
the names of the websites and add their feeds to the list. You can categorize
these feeds according to their features
such as education/travel/fashion etc. You see the numbers next to the
blogs' name and understand that there is something new. Also, the posts that
you do not read remains bold so that you could see how many of them left to be
read.
As you can see above, I follow several blogs and FeedReader
helps me a lot keeping up with the latest posts and it is really simple to
use,too. Among these blogs, I have a favourite one that I recommend for EFL
teachers to check : Özge KARAOĞLU
This blog is created by Özge KARAOĞLU. She is an English
teacher, teacher trainer and educational consultant. Her blog is one of the
best examples of tutor blogs where you can learn how to integrate technology
into education and of course in our case mostly into teaching English. Teaching with the web-based technologies is the main concern of the blog so you can find
many teaching tips whose aim is to combine tech and education and create
effective ways for learners in the process of language learning. She
recommends different web tools and applications for vocabulary
exercices/creating online stories/listening activities etc. She also provides
lesson plan samples for different topics. The resources that she shares on her
blog are definitely useful for EFL teachers and they encourage you to use
technology in teaching and make lessons more enjoyable for your students.
Explore her blog and I am sure that you will be inspired and add some of the things that she recommends to your teaching materials.
See you in my next post !
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