Creating Blogs

Blogs

A blog is a web page on which you can publish your writings, videos or pictures. The word blog stands for web log. Blogs are social because via them people can communicate and connect online. Everybody can create and use a blog easily. People can share their writings, journals and audio files and comment on others’ entries by blogs. So how can people benefit from it in education and teaching? Blogs used in education are called as edublogs. A teacher can use a blog to inform her students on some topics, to give news about the course, to give homework, study tips or summaries of the lectures to her students. This kind of blogs used by teachers is known as tutor blog. Also a student can create a blog and these kinds of blogs are student blogs. A student can be asked to post her assignments via her blog by her teacher. Also she can use it to communicate with her friends and to comment on their posts. Even she can have a contact with students from all over the world. The last kind of blog used in education is class blog. This blog can be created by a teacher to be used in course. This time the teacher and all learners of the class use the same blog page to post their works. I think this blog type is the most interactive one. Students can share all things related to the course and practice the target language in an interactive way. There are lots of free blog sites on the Internet. Some of them are as follows: Blogger, Getablog, WordPress, and EzBlogWorld.