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Joining a Professional Blog

“Joining a Professional Blog” is an activity that encourages learners to join a professional engineering blog, read blog entries, followed with reflective writing in one's own blog.

Outcomes:

The learner will be able to:

  • Write a summary related to engineering and post to a blog
  • Read blogs as a research tool

Preparation:

  • How to write reflections by supplying wording or gambits, models or providing guiding questions
  • Review how to write a summary
  • Discuss and list key vocabulary related to the topic
  • How to do Peer editing

Delivery:

  1. Read and join a professional engineer blog
    • See “Canada Engineer: Blogspot” as an example
    • Discuss the new information from the blog (technical and specialized information) with one peer
    • Create a draft written post, one to two paragraphs in length, summarizing the read content from the blog
  2. Do peer editing; in pairs edit draft summary; revise writing before posting on blog
  3. Post final draft of writing to blog; add related images

The Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) skills addressed by this activity are:

  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Writing