Week 1 : Reflection

The discussion on the use of blogs in teaching English and which I had with my friends and colleagues during last week was one of the most interesting debate I have never had during my teaching career . I have leant a lot about the benefits of integrating blogs in language classes and the discussion generated a limitless number of activities that can be used by language teachers .
At the beginning my worries were how to involve some of my students with poor computer skills in blogging activities . The teacher community helped me . Today I know that the success of the task doesn't depend on my students computer skills but it depends on my class management , the choice of the activities and my objectives .
It is clear now that blogging improves students writing , reading , speaking and listening . As the Algerian education policy is based on the competency based approach , blogging will not only allow me to integrate the four skills ( reading , writing , listening and speaking ) and thus gain time but it will also help me involve as many students as possible in the learning process . They will become responsible for their learning , monitoring the activities themselves and learning from each other . In this way , I'll improve the three competencies which are the objectives of leaning English in Algeria , that's to say : interpreting , producing and interacting . I think that my students will certainly use their blogs for presenting their projects and exchanging information with each other .
I'm looking forward trying blogging activities in my class the coming weeks . Once more thank you !