As many of you know I teach English at an Engineering Graduate School in France called the ENAC, École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile. It is a Grande École which means it is very competitive to get into and the students are very motivated and work hard. I taught a General English class that was an elective so I had more flexibility with my curriculum. They generally have to do a final research project in English. They did it in my class as well but I had them make it in the form of a blog which they presented to the class.
I gave no direction for the topic because the goal was to research and write in English and keep the blogging interface in English. Some chose serious topics and some less serious. Here is a list of their blogs. Visit them to see what they did, comment on them, tell me what you think. They didn’t have a long time to work on them and we didn’t always have access to a computer lab but I think they turned out nicely. Also, since it was an elective I could only expect a certain amount out of them, but I think they are interesting.
Student Blogs
- Travel with Rico
- Must Watch TV
- How to Make Beer
- Beach Sports
- 4L ENAC
- Sub Hockey
- RC Acrobatics
- Around Australia
- Base Jumping
- Jump Style Dancing
- Summer Music Festivals
- The Dahu
Popularity: 21% [?]
Well, I learned what Sub Hockey is — but I don’t think it’s a sport for me!
I don’t think I’ll be taking it up soon. Did you see the Jump style and Tecktonik blog, that was pretty cool. I loved the Travel with Rico because he was doing it for real and plans to keep adding to it until his trip so he can plan his trip and get recommendations.
Yes, and the blog idea was a good one!
Hi Owen, I was watching your student´s blogs and I can tell you some of them are great. It was very nice of you to share this and help them to gain some more traffic
Have fun!
Thanks funride, I”m hoping some of them will catch the blogging “bug” and keep doing it. I know once I was going to quit and then I got a few readers and then my traffic increased and then all of a sudden I was addicted. I hope it happens to a few of them and they continue to practice their English, which is pretty good.
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