Blog helps building a community where everyone including teachers and students to share opinions. In traditional classroom, students may be afraid or don’t have chance to express their opinions, while on line they will feel less pressured. By using blog, students get more opportunity to practise langauge besides in class. Moreover, blog allows more than one type of information to be involved. There will be pictures, video, audio and even links to other blogs or websites. Thus communicating through blog, students can get access to knowledge and communicate with each other more effectively than in traditional classroom.
As for perfessional development, blog allows seaching and consulting posts in the past, in another word it is archived. I can review the previous classes easily by searching inside my blog. As a teacher, it is important to have a clear knowledge about what to teach and how to connect it with what is learnt before to help students better view language learning as a whole. These clear and detailed records also allow students whenever they need to review knowledge.
Performance indicatore - ESL.I.5-8.5.1.3
Students recognize and share cross-cultural experiences and ideas, and connect with those of others.
Performance indicator - ESL.C.9-12.2
Students will listen, speak, read and write in Enlish for literary response, enjoyment and expression.
