How Would I Use Blogger, Wikis and Delicious with My EFL Students?

As digital native students use technology in every aspect of life, teachers should benefit and use technology while teaching to support teaching/learning process and be so close to the students' zone. There are a lot of websites that can be used by the teacher that give the teaching/learning process a tasty flavor of flexibility and enjoyment. Blogger, wikis and the delicious delicious are some of these well-done websites.

First website is blogger. I can ask my students to create their own blogs and start blogging, commenting, summarizing and reflecting. For example,I can give my students a passage to read and ask them to summarize it through blogging. Also, I might announce for a competition of the best blog.Via blogging a lot of interaction and information exchanging happen that can help make student learn indirectly. Learning indirectly will help students use the target language naturally. Day by day , students will find themselves improving, learning and at the same time enjoying. Actually,I might ask my students to reflect on one of the videos posted by me. I might ask them to Comments on other students from different nationalities. Commenting on other blogs( their colleagues and others) will give my students a broader vision.

Second website is wiki, Although I did not discover all its features ,I can definitely use it for collaborative work between my students.I will divid my students into 3-5 students to work on a reading project.So, all 3 students will work collaboratively in editing their works. They will share and exchange information. They will learn how to deal with group-working. Actually, whenever I think of group working , I will use wikis as my platform.




Last but not the least is delicious . This is one of my favorite websites that is truly easy and delicious. I will use it with my students to add useful links that help them understand more and more. Also, I will ask each one of students to create an account and share with all benefit webs. I might concentrate in adding games and friendly webs to give my students some space to learn indirectly.

In conclusion, I will try my best to use different webs while teaching. Of course, I will make sure my students are familiar in using them so that they won't be struggling and all my objectives are lost. The most important thing that I will do is teaching my student indirectly and joyfully through out these webs. My goal is to reach a point where using the target language is part of there life as technology.