Catch the New Blackboard

    As the development of technology, online tools has became an necessary part in our life. Among those, weblogs is considered to be one of the most efficient in improving the teaching and learning process. It's like a new technical  blackboard; the teachers and students can use the blogs to promote their learning and teaching process.

    As a teacher, I may try to build my blog to reflect my teaching experiences. Using the blogs to describe the various teaching methods I will use in my classroom, if it works I may try to share it with other teachers, and if the method does not work , I will also ask those experienced teachers to help. Besides, collaboration is also necessary between teachers. Teachers can use using blogs to working on the same topic , sharing  ideas or teaching activities that used successfully in their own classroom.  For me , I will also use the weblogs to keep pace with the development of teaching technology.

  For my future students whose first language is not English, I will use the weblogs to help them understand the nature of  language. According to ACTFL,  National standards for Foreign language Education, one of the teaching standards is Comparisons. Teachers can help the students to understand the nature of language and culture through the comparison of the language studied and their own. I may  set the class blog, dividing the all the students in two group, practicing on writing and translating. For instance, one of the group will post an article in English, and the other group will works on the translations of the passage in their mother language. Both of them can critique on their works about the language structure, the meaning of the translation works. I think the practice of such works will help the students have a sense about the difference between the different languages and the culture. However, I will also try to make the blogs more individual in order to raise the students' interests in using it. I can encourage students to have their own course blogs, posting their own ideas, feelings and  written works.

  Using blogs in the L2 classroom can be a long journey. The more we explored the more surprise we may receive.

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