Find out how they make their money. Building and maintaining a website is expensive and requires income of some kind to continue. Hopefully you’re aware of how “free” sites such as WordPress, Facebook, Blogger, and Youtube are able to make … Continue reading
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Is classroom blogging worth the hard work?
For many teachers, classroom blogging is a struggle for a variety of reasons. Even if you have the know-how and the resources, to do it right isn’t such a simple endeavor. The question is, are the rewards worth the struggle? … Continue reading
Classroom blog idea: Keep your study abroad students connected
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My colleague Cody is a highly gifted polyglot, fluent in 6 languages: Arabic, Moroccan, French, English, Korean and Japanese. I’d love to have her brain for 10 minutes, what’s that like? Cody and I were talking today about PikiFriends, and … Continue reading
A+1 Blogging
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The PikiFriends blog offers a great method to develop online conversations through blogging. Called the A+1 Method, the process encourages quality when responding to blog posts, thus continuing the conversation.
Blogging has become a written art; bloggers create a blog post on topics of their choice, expressing their views and opinions to their readers. Comments to blog posts keep the topic alive and promote deeper understanding, new learning, and thought-provoking insight.
Thanks to Slice of Rice for adding "+1" to this lesson plan idea!
PikiFriends: Since 2008
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Four years ago in a Tokyo high school the first student logged on to PikiFriends, followed by thousands more from over 100 schools in 30 countries. Somehow we’ve managed to stay alive despite some epic challenges. And we’ll continue to offer … Continue reading
Lesson Plan: “Becoming Clickable” – How to take advantage of students’ desire to be popular online
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“Becoming Clickable” refers to increasing the traffic to your website. The more that people interact with your site, the more “clickable” it is. Without question, the majority of bloggers and social network users want to become as clickable as possible. “The … Continue reading
87 Schools, 29 Countries
Those are numbers of PikiFriends today. Since 2008, with no advertising, no marketing budget and our beta program we’ve managed to bring together quite a few junior and senior high school teachers around the world. I’m deeply thankful to the … Continue reading
Be Inspired When You Teach!
I had a high school math teacher who sat in front of an overhead projector every class and bored the living hell out of every student, year after year. I had an English teacher who managed to take all of … Continue reading
Lesson Plan: Use the “A+1″ method when writing blog comments
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Arguably the beauty of blogging can be found in the comments, where online conversations carry interesting potentials. When blogging with students, I’ve found it very rewarding to look at levels of quality in comment-writing, and I’ve seen great results in … Continue reading
A Thorny Issue: Teachers’ and learners’ right to privacy
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Introduction Elearning is booming and many schools are investigating the advantages and opportunities afforded by using the WWW to enhance participation in learning activities and add value to the courses they offer. The following guide is intended to help schools … Continue reading
