Edublogs+Project

This was an exciting and brand new experience to me. I think that it will be a wonderful learning tool for that will reinforce the class lessons. I already envision myself using a blog for my medical and legal interpretation students in the following ways:
 * Supplementary/Complementary Teaching
 * Assessment
 * Continuing Education

Besides education, I see blogging as a great marketing tool. I am considering starting a blog for medical translators and a separate one for legal translators to introduce potential customers to my company and to retain current clients with refreshing, new information. I am looking forward to begin to blog! Thank you very much!

You did an outstanding job creating a Language of Medicine blog using the EduBlog platform. You inserted important links in your blogroll for easy access. I'm so glad that you can see beyond the project--that this type of technology can be used for many purposes as you mentioned in your reflection. You were successful in selecting and using a beautiful template that has a professional look and feel. Your best project so far, Orlando! You are doing an amazing job understanding and using the technology.

According to the SupportBlogging.com wiki, blogging empowers students  in the following ways:1) Instead of writing as a mechanized approach to empowerment where we learn to write well enough for school and work, we learn to write for life-long learning purposes.2) Writing and blogging and life are intertwined as difficult issues are exposed and dealt with in a transparent community of voices. Although this type of writing entails risk and trust, growth and teamwork naturally result.3) Writing and blogging encourage students' initiative to write, to be engaged at more than just the head level. It involves writing from head and heart. Children often have not learned to do more than live from the heart, while adults have concentrated their efforts on more cerebral approaches. This means adults and children can bridge the gap that exists by writing together, creating a community of writers in their classrooms where there is no pseudo-community, only community where humans write. http://supportblogging.com/Educational+BloggingHere are some resources about blogging:[][] (Blogging in the Physics Classroom)[][][][][]Here are more resources for collaboration:15 Free Online Collaboration Tools and Apps[]More free tools online[]Interesting! The Whiteboard Reinvented-Dabbleboard[]One of my favorite new tools: VoiceThread (This could easily be used for staff development.)[] Select BROWSE on the toolbar. Select What’s a VoiceThread… and watch the example of how a Voice Thread works. Here is an example of one that my class last year played with:[|http://voicethread.com/?#u1026074]How about creativity? Make a Word Cloud:Wordle [|www.wordle.net]52 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom[]Or maybe a Tagxedo: [|Tagxedo]  turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. []