Blogs are web pages where the author or authors publish about an interest topic; this information is putting out chronologically. A blog is a tool of collaborative work that allows people express their ideas, opinions or suggestions.
For this reason, blogs are used in education by teachers to sharing information, materials, downloads, links and more with the students, because it is an easy way to communicate, give opinions, recommendations, facilitate online discussions, collaboration and feedback as well; it can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization, talent and expertise; you could integrate videos, podcasts and images to do the process of teaching and learning dynamic and successful. The purpose is creating a group that engages and challenges their points of view using the last which is the technology.
Nowadays the technology is a necessity because it is in anywhere where you go, then the education has have to development and introduce it into the class; researching about the fastest, easiest and most effective methods of learning as blogs, microbloggings, wikis, etc.
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Blogs are prefect for developing writing skills in our students. We can make the pratice by telling them that as an assignment, they have to post a comment to an interesting you have selected for them according to the lesson and their preferences. Let's try to not make our teaching boring when we use the same activities everytime, let's be encouraging teachers that help them to be capable to use the language in any possible siuation.
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