Lesson Plan (sent hard copy earlier during presentation)

LEVEL : Form 3
TIME : 60 mins
AIMS : To practice writing journals through blogs.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

One computer per group of 2-3 students, with an internet connection, a Web browser, and email. Each students or group needs an email address.

Websites: www.blogspot.com, www.wordpress.com, www.livejournal.com

PREPARATION:
1. Locate sites offering suitable blog
2. Check sites before lesson.

PROCEDURE
1. Show the students of important bloggers with their blogs like Tun Mahathir Mohamad and Afdlin Shauki and other relevant blogs that suits their age or interests from the main computer and projector. Write some examples of websites on the board.

2. Give each student or group to browse through the websites first for them to get a glimpse of what a blog is all about and to give them the ideas on how they can write their own.

3. Send the students to a particular blog host and demonstrate to them on how they can create their own blog.

4. Give the students some time to open up their own account of blog.

5. After the students have done this, discuss any procedures that they might have encountered. Then, instruct the students to write their first entry in their blog with a specific topic on how they feel on starting a new blog.

6. If time permits, pick random students to share their entries with fellow classmates where their blogs are shown to the others as an example.

FOLLOW UP

1. Students are showed on how they can make their blogs more interesting with simple additional html applications by the teacher.

2. Make a list of the students in class and their blogs. Put it on the notice board. Invite the students to visit each others’ blog from time to time.Students need to answer the worksheet as a homework.

WORKSHEET
1. What is your opinion on blogging?





2. Which do you prefer? Traditional diary or blog?





3. Why?



4. Will you continue to blog after the class has finished?