My BA students' blogs

Hello all,

I finally started using blogs for my BA students' Essay Writing Class! It is a new experience for us all, so bear with us while we blunder thru, but I may add that I'm proud of the efforts my students have put in, and I hope you feel moved to visit several of their blogs and honor us with your comments. I'm sure they will be delighted to have visitors!

The URLs follow below (not all of them, but those who have already posted to their blogs; the rest will follow shortly, I hope). Hopefully, the English and typing mistakes will lessen after more experience, but since they are mostly new to typing (not to mention blogging!) and they are only sophomore students of English, I think they are doing pretty well. I should also mention that some of them have been guilty of plagiarism without knowing how serious an offense it is (they mostly think of it as sharing something worth sharing, and don't mean to abuse other people), but we're working on that, too. As a starter, I've taught them how they can add a link to the site they have 'picked up' the stuff from, so they can acknowledge using it.

Anyway, all comments/suggestions/etc. are most welcome, and please pass on the word to anyone you think might be interested.

Here goes then:

http://persiangirlss.blogspot.com/
http://elham-wonderfulcity.blogspot.com/
http://faridehesmaelie.blogspot.com/
http://maryamshaafiyan.blogspot.com/
http://ariageneration.blogspot.com/
http://Iranmyhome-negin.blogspot.com/
http://thenewageofPersia.blogspot.com/
http://erisa-about-me.blogspot.com/
http://mazeroon-atefeh.blogspot.com/
http://iran-lostwonder.blogspot.com/
http://towardmycountry.blogspot.com/
http://mahshidq.blogspot.com/
http://achaemenidempire.blogspot.com/
http://solmazmoemen.blogspot.com/
http://shiraz-the-city-of-roses-and-poets.blogspot.com/
http://maryjoon.blogspot.com/
http://maryblessings.blogspot.com/
http://mycountrymylife.blogspot.com/
http://mahboubehtaghizadehs.blogspot.com/
http://nazaninsharghi.blogspot.com/
http://mybelovedcity.blogspot.com/
http://divineland.persianblog.com/
http://shimbamisi.blogspot.com/
http://pars-apadana.blogspot.com/
http://happy-nowruz-to-all.blogspot.com/
http://www.frnz64.blogspot.com
http://www.mahshidbahmani.blogspot.com/
http://leilalandy.blogspot.com

Looking forward to hearing from you on this! :-)

P.S. Bee wanted to know more about this class, so she could include info about it in the Dekita Exchange. (Thanks so much, Bee, and thanks also for commenting on my students' blogs; they were delighted!) Anyway, here goes: This is a class of sophomores of English Literature at Al-Zahra (aka Azzahra) University in Tehran, Iran. They are all girls, aged around 20-25, and the blogs are for their Essay Writing Class. They are only in their fourth term of English (as a foreign, not second language). The class will officially end the middle of June, but I don't know if they will continue blogging after May, since they will be busy getting ready for end-of-term finals, projects, etc.

Comments

Bee said…
Hi Susan!
Great to see your´re into blogging with your students. If you could please modify this post a little bit and include the location, ages, level and duration of the course I could include it on the Dekita exchange
Warm regards from Brazil,
Bee
mozhdeh said…
Dear Teacher,
I really thank you to help me to experience new things.Makin blog was really enjoyable for me.
Happy Norooz.
love,
Mozhdeh.G
Anonymous said…
Dear Dr. Marandi,

Thanks for fixing my blog !!!

It is really a great honor for me to have your words on my blog, so I won’t delete them.
Moreover, I had made the necessary changes, but as you know I can’t attend your classes for nearly 2 weeks, though I promised you to do all my best even if I am not in class.

Anyway, once again, thanks for being patient with me, and I wish you and your dear family a prosperous new year.

Warmest regards,
Marjann
Dearest ever,
Thank you for every little thing You`ve done for me.Just wanted to drop a line and let you know that to know you is to know a world for me . . .Nothing to depress you, only joys to surround you,many friends to love you,and God to bless you.These are my wishes for you...
Much love,
Maryam.A
Gladys Baya said…
What an interesting project, Susan!

Any way in which I might find out about the topics your students are writing about (apart from logging into each one, I mean)? Then I might refer my students so that they find someone to read according to their interests... They're not that keen on browsing (forget blogging!), but a couple of them will certainly going to post something if I can guide them more specifically.

Success!

Gladys
Ale W said…
Dear Susan,
Thanks for sharing your work and your students' work with us. I will be inviting my CAE students to comment on your students's blogs soon if you think it is OK.

I am a firm believer that these intercultural activities go way beyond helping them to learn a language. I think they help them to become better citizens of the world.

A big hug from Argentina.

Alejandra Weser
rosa ochoa said…
Congratulations Susan and Susan's students,

I'm goign to ask my students to read your blogs and write commnents. It will be an inspiration to read your entries about English literature, Iranian culture and traditions (Nowruz), etc. and in such good English! You can also visit their blogs and find something about their lives in Sydney.
Cheers, Rosa
Anonymous said…
Hi susan
Great job Susan.

Dude from Texas
Anonymous said…
sss
Anonymous said…
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Anonymous said…
you are unimaginably great.
Anonymous said…
Have I ever told you that...?
Dear Susan,

I hope it's not too late to say congratulations for you and your students for such a successful project. I hope you and I can work on a similar collaborative project for our students in the near future. Let's think of a way or some topics that are suitable for your Art and my Engineering & Petroleum classes.

Best of luck!
Anonymous said…
just wanted to say that how different ranks in society can change people's personalities!!!! Good job!!!
Anonymous said…
Dear Dr.Marandi
I looked at your blog. That was great. Thanks for your sharing such an experience with your students especially me!!

Best of luck,
Parisa Mehran
Friends said…
Dear Dr.Marandi
I guess we forgot telling you: friends-irandaily.blogspot.com is our blog
Happy new year
Niousha
Anonymous said…
Hi DR Marandi
Our blog hasn't had much viewer yet, Can you plz air our link in your blog, Thanks a lot.
Anonymous said…
Dear Dr. Marandi,

It was a great job, indeed. Only one BIG flaw: as an Iranian-born Iranian I'm really sorry to read this sentence in your profile:"American-born Iranian ".
I cannot fully understand this but as an unnecessary show-off. Who knows? May be if your father was not in US - for whatever reason as education, sent by government, having enough money to spend, great talent, etc. -, you were not given birth there, so you couldn't very very unnecessarily cry out you were an "American-born Iranian ".
I have seen and even talked to you for a few minutes, but you really don't seem to be such a person. I'm sure that was an unintentional mistake to be corrected.

Wish you the best,

A PhD Student in Applied Linguistics, Tehran.
Essays Writing said…
Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.

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