Online media in Education

   Blogs for Education

           Blogger is a useful tool that can be use in education since it favors dialogue and creates the opportunity to meet other people in which both the bloggers and readers exchange opinions, ideas, and feelings. Teachers can use a blog to publish materials and activities that the students can access to and where the students can make comments. Teachers  can also let students to create  their own blogs according to the topic that is being seen in class. The linguistic skills that this tool can evaluate are reading ,writing and maybe speaking .

The following activities can be created using Blogger

1. Project work:  A blog is an ideal space for developing a project, especially if the project is a shared  between even classes in schools.
2. Journals: Students can write about their lives, feelings, opinions, etc, and be encouraged to read about the other class and respond by writing comments.
3. Class assessment: Students should be encouraged to post their writing homework on the blog instead of only giving it to the teacher.

Tips To Use Blogs in the Classroom

1. Read other Blogs
   Take the time to read other classroom and student blogs.
2. Plagiarism
   Explain to students that plagiarism will not be allowed. Student contributions must be their own work.
3. Interact with other Bloggers
   Encourage collaboration by having students network with bloggers and follow other student blogs. 

          An Ingenious tool

       There are many reasons why teachers may choose to use blogs with the students. One of the best reasons is to give the students the opportunity to writing. In addition, the teacher is the only person who reads students writing. With blogs, students can find themselves writing for other people for example, their classmates, students from other classes, or even other countries.