Week 1 - My reflections on using blogs.

Blog is a very useful tool in teaching. I carefully read the article “Blogging for ELT” and I’d like to share my thoughts about blogs. As there are three kinds of blogs, which are the tutor blog, the class blog and the learner blog, they each in their own way motivate teaching and learning EFL. The tutor blog encourages teacher to develop new methods, create assignments and new topics for discussion with the class. As it is stated in the article the class blog is a shared space where both the teacher and students are able to write their ideas. This blog promotes communication between teacher and students and raises their discussion and critical thinking skills. The learner blog helps students improve their writing and reading comprehension skills. In my opinion students can leave there their comments on what they have read or write an essay or other creative work such as a poem or a story. One of the blogging tools for teenagers is Live Journal http://www.livejournal.com and it is an online space for them to talk to those around them by writing and reading their community’s comments.