Blogs. Ideas to integrate them in the classroom

Ideas for integrating blogs in the classroom:

- Role as a teacher:
- familiar with the tool: questions - posts, comments, uploading photos
- generic tool: non-dedicated language learning tool
- creative role: task design

- tasks: points to consider
- journal/diary in the target language
- learning about culture (photograph)
( using pictures can be good for vocabulary acquisition)
- writing a story in the target language
- you can have images and make the students write a story using your images
- as for the comments, you can encourage them giving students extra marks if they write a worthwhile comment in their friend's diaries.
- the teacher can comment and it can motivate students to write better comments.

Types of L2 blogs:
- grammar blog
- culture blog
(including post which describes various websites/resources which can exploit)
- online dictionaries; web translators; thesaurus
- shopping websites (for vocabulary acquisition)


Language level? Beginner? Intermediate?
Mother tongue for less advanced levels?