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Obama 2.0 for ELT

March 24, 2009 |  Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments




About a month ago,  I mentioned this to some colleagues at my workplace when we were talking about the wide array of  authentic material the web offers for EFL students, so imagine my surprise when I found this article by Simon Buckland. However, while Mr. Buckland refers to the richness of the new President’s rhetoric, which allows for deep language analysis, I was pointing out the fact that the new administration has refreshed the official website of the White House with a 2.0 style! The renewed  presidential site has a frequently updated blog citizens can subscribe to and also includes weekly video addresses by Mr.Obama himself. This clearly shows the extent to which the new technologies are shaping communication and the way we relate to each other, increasing transparency, even at governmental level. In addition, by using constantly updated authentic resources we are giving new relevance to our language classes and the old phrase that says that the whole world (wide web) is a classroom!


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  1.    Sarah on March 25, 2009 9:22 am

    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

    Sarah

    http://www.craigslistposter.info

  2.    Abby on June 20, 2009 9:19 pm

    Hi, this is weird.. I mean we’re both from Rosario, why am I speaking in English? Oh it’s because I don’t want to ruin the balance in your blog.

    Speaking of TICs when teaching English, perhaps you would like my series of posts named:

    “La geek del curso”
    http://elblogdeabby.blogspot.com/search/label/Geek

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