Week 2: Is this the blog I can trust?
Hello and welcome to my blog :) Today we are going to talk about how to judge whether a learning technology blog is an advertisement or a review. First of all, it is important to note that as English teachers in today's society, we are introduced to different technologies all the time. Before we actually use them into our classrooms, we need to refer to the reviews and summaries of other English teachers before deciding if they are suitable for our content. Therefore, browsing technology blogs plays an important role in our decisions. As English teachers, we prefer our information come from authentic, critical, peer reviews from a teacher's perspective. However, not all blogs will provide enough useful information for English teachers and we need to judge for ourselves. Take the following blogs as an example: https://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ (screenshot was taken from https://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ ) At first look, the layout...