Although the title of this post would be shorter and, say, more beautiful, agree with me that can not be more explicit: P online supplement a classroom course and asked me to explain a bit what we have done. I take this opportunity to give some hints on how to use this service creation and management posts in our courses. In this case, a teacher training course.
Course Teacher Training Extended I / LE (CEXELE) in Málaga
Yes, 120-hour course taught by mid May two afternoons per week. This organization, in our view, requires a continuity that can be given only by medio de un espacio online común a todos los participantes, que sirva, tanto de
repositorio de materiales como de medio de comunicación y de espacio de interacción. Todo esto lo podemos conseguir con un blog (en este caso en Blogger) que sirva de lugar desde donde seguir el proceso del curso y de plataforma para acceder a otros servicios, herramientas y recursos. 
Os daré algunas pautas de lo que se puede hacer (y estamos haciendo) desde Blogger a fin de enriquecer los programas académicos presenciales que, de este modo, se transforman en
b-learning : Privacidad. Evidentemente, este blog es privado, it is for internal use by the course participants, both teachers and pupils and, occasionally, collaborators (eg, specialized publishers involved with workshops). Blogger lets you create a private blog that is accessible only by invitation.
Mail GMail. can only access the private blog via an e-mail from GMail
. What at first is a limitation we have become an advantage, creating as many accounts as participants in the course there. Thus, we avoid having people who do not want to use their personal accounts in certain areas. In our case, we have created and distributed accounts that students have changed their passwords when they are trying to whose mailbox has been invited and from which you access the class blog. Pages. Entries addition, Blogger allows you to have pages (fixed) displayed in tabs, which we used (you can see in the screenshot) to manage certain information that we considered essential and should always be present. There are six sections: This blog, where we explain the function within the course.Program. Hours, dates and sessions. Library. All relevant documentation collected: links to educational journals, reference to documents ... and documents for direct download (articles, interviews, worksheets, etc.).
activities and tasks. Periodically, at the end of each block of sessions, it will take some task or activity. All instructions, deadlines, working groups, etc. will be here.
Tools. Shortcuts to other online tools that we use during the course for some activities or tasks, such as Flickr and Google Docs. Contact
- . Naturally, for any Indeed, all the ways to contact us, email, phone, Skype, Twitter ...- have them in the last page.
- In the second inning of this series, we will discuss the role of data repository (Point 4), publication, administration and content of entries (point 5) and labeling system (point 6).