For me , it is the first time that I use a blog. The experience has been very interesting. Besides, you need to be disciplined, organized, and very precise when writing your ideas.
I think the link for creating the blog www.blogger.com is very easy to use and very useful.
Also there are other links related to create a personal blog like www.hi5.com, facebook or www.tagged.com
I consider an advantage to choose which people you want to invite for participating in sharing ideas and comments through the blogs. Another advantage is that the information cannot be changed unless you allow the others to do it. This is a way to practise English and comment on one particular topic. Students can show creativity, too.
The wikis are public web pages and are more dynamic than the blogs, but there is no chronological order and the pages can be change freely by many people. One of the most known wikis page is the wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). This tool is very useful, but you need to be critic about the contents and the resources used in those webpages. In fact, there are teachers who do not recommend the wikipedia as one of the main search tools for research projects, because the ideas can have lack of scientific support.
In this course, it was my first time using a podcast. This is another useful tool. Teachers can record their voices for different purposes: to emphasize listening and pronunciation skills by telling a story, reading about science topics, phonetics, music, etc. Students can use this tool to make comments on a particular topic, do a survey or an interview too. Besides, teachers can use a laptop with speakers, or a USD with MP3 format and a tape recorder with MP3 format as technology devices. They do not need to repeat the same thing several times, instead with the audio software is much easier for students to pay attention to the tape and listen it again.
This is an interactive and very creative tool.
Finally, these softwares are available and teachers need some training, but it is not complicated.
Some free blogs are: http://www.blogger.com http://wordpress.org, http://www.bahraichblogs.com/ http://www.getablog.net/portal3.php
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