London Borough of Hounslow TrEACL report (PDF)

Summary
TrEACL (Technology to Enhance Adult and Community Learning) was an LSC fund for innovative practice in the use of information and communications technology (ICT), to support learning in all subject/curriculum areas within organisations delivering Adult and Community Learning (ACL).

This report is from the first round of funding (2003/4).

This TrEACL Round 1 project has piloted the use of blogs across a range of Adult and Community Learning groups and assessed how useful blogging is as a tool to enhance learning.

A blog (or weblog) is a personal website consisting of regularly updated entries displayed in reverse chronological order - in effect a personal online diary with the latest entry at the top. Blogs can be text only or a combination of text and images.

This project gave adult learners in the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Hillingdon the opportunity to create and maintain blogs as part of their programme of learning.

Basic skills and ESOL learners have created blog diaries and this has helped to develop good ICT skills in a real context and proved to be a great motivator.

An NVQ Childcare class has combined blogging with web research skills and class members have written a group blog rather than individual blogs. In this case the blog is a collection of recipes for children.

Terry Loane, who is leading the project, is very pleased with the enthusiastic response from the learners. He says, "Learners have welcomed the opportunity to publish their own work on the web and are justifiably proud of the professional result."

Resource

• London Borough of Hounslow TrEACL report (PDF)

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• London Borough of Hounslow TrEACL report (Word)

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