Blogs

Blogs

Blogs are web 2.0 tools. They are so popular nowadays that you can find a blog of almost any topic that come to your mind. There are blogs for many different topics and they have different levels of formality or periodicity. Some people blog about their area of study or their hobbies but some others blog about their experiences, their daily life, whatever comes to their mind. People get really engaged with their blogs.

People blog and follow blogs all around the world. Some people work blogging, they can even make the ends meet.   I personally follow some blogs about literature in my mother tongue (Spanish), about photography and about TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). In blogs about TEFL you can find experience, reflection but also a lot of interesting ideas for classroom activities and online activities. Besides, you can find the results, I mean, some TEFL bloggers reports what happened when they did those activities. That’s cool. 

Here you have some blogs about TEFL:

• LARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAY…: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
• Throwing Back Tokens:  http://tokenteach.wordpress.com/
• Love, life & language learning:  http://eltideas.wordpress.com/
• Evelyn Izquierdo: http://evelynizquierdo.wordpress.com/

I hope you like them! 

Blogs can also be useful for having your students writing: you can have an interactive class blog or a blog per student. Or you can have one course blog where they can just read and comment what you post. Blogs are definitely a very useful tool for teaching English as a foreign language.