College English Blogs

These were the top blog sites I found when googling this evening. I searched using "educational blogs college English."

The first blog I found was Teacher Lingo. This blog is a collection of educational blog posts supposedly by teachers who teach at a college or university. I found it to be an eclectic list of blogs by teachers from various levels and disciplines. One instructor was from Developmental English, so hers was interesting to me. Others were from high school teachers or math teachers. There are tabs across the top entitled “Find Teachers,” “Lessons,” Message Board,” and so on.

The second blog I found was Online Freshmen English. This blog shows a training exercise on debate for online students. The concept is interesting, and I may choose to try it in one of my classes. As I worked through the navigation bar, I realized it actually links back into the Teacher Lingo blog above, so it may be a subset. Once I read the link name, I realized it was also part of the address, so I am sure it is. So much information is in this site that I felt overwhelmed.

The third blog I found was Beth Ritter-Guth’s College English. This site appears to actually be a teacher’s course for the semester. She has a series of videos for her students to explain how to do each week’s assignments. She also has information about vozme, pocasts, and other forms of technology tools. Her readings are also included in this one page. I found it a bit strange, but feel many students would love it once they got used to it since there probably isn’t any book to buy for the class, and there also is great communication with all of her explanations in the mini videos

Since two of these are from the same area, I will include a fourth: College English. This blog area includes tabs for E-Learning, Literature, Writing, and more. It also includes course blogs for Gladly Learne: English 280, LiveJournal Course Blog for 150 and 286. There is also a list of various professors who participate. On the right side there is a list of items recently on Del.icio.us talking about Twitter, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 technologies. I believe this blog has much to offer.

The second blog I found was Online Freshmen English: http://onlinefreshmenenglish.teacherlingo.com/. This blog shows a training exercise on debate for online students. The concept is interesting, and I may choose to try it in one of my classes. As I worked through the navigation bar, I realized it actually links back into the Teacher Lingo blog above, so it may be a subset. Once I read the link name, I realized it was also part of the address, so I am sure it is. So much information is in this site that I felt overwhelmed.

The third blog I found was Beth Ritter-Guth’s College English: http://lccccollegeenglish.blogspot.com/. This site appears to actually be a teacher’s course for the semester. She has a series of videos for her students to explain how to do each week’s assignments. She also has information about vozme, pocasts, and other forms of technology tools. Her readings are also included in this one page. I found it a bit strange, but feel many students would love it once they got used to it since there probably isn’t any book to buy for the class, and there also is great communication with all of her explanations in the mini videos

Since two of these are from the same area, I will include a fourth: College English: http://collegeenglish.wordpress.com/. This blog area includes tabs for E-Learning, Literature, Writing, and more. It also includes course blogs for Gladly Learne: English 280, LiveJournal Course Blog for 150 and 286. There is also a list of various professors who participate. On the right side there is a list of items recently on Del.icio.us talking about Twitter, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 technologies. I believe this blog has much to offer.