What's a blog?

The different blogs I have visited are based on different purposes. One of them is a teachers blog that contains their work and reflections about different topics. The aim of this blog is to show us their contributions, here they can choose anything they want to share.

The other ones are blogs addressed to teachers, in order to help them with the new CLIL methodology and a blog that give us some examples of poems that we can use with our students.

This blogs' aim is to help teachers with specific topics. There is a different blog for each theme, that is a good way of having the information in a sequenced and clear way.

In my opinion, depending on our purposes as teachers we can create a different blog. If we want to share our ideas about any topic or share all the works that we do in class, we can follow the first type of blogs, we can define it as a more informal or personal kind of blog.

But if our objective is to give teachers contrasted information about a topic or giving advice on how to work on an specific contents, the second kind of blogs are a formal way of doing it.

Due to the fact that I work with young students I prefer the first type because I can register all the original works and projects we do in class.

A blog is an internet space where we can upload our thoughts or opinions about any topic we want to, and also share information or works. There are different types of blogs depending on their purposes.

As I am an English Primary school teacher, the blogs that can help me with my class are other teachers' blogs about their projects because I can get ideas or even create my own blog with my elder students. It is a good way of changing the typical homework and motivate students working with internet while learning. The blog provides the teacher with an individual register and all the students entries will be ordered.

If I decide to create a blog with my students there are some tips to take into account, some related to privacy and others about students respect.

To sum up, I would like to say that blogs are a good way of taking advantage of the new technologies while making students work in a more relaxing and motivating way as they are part of a society in which they are surrounded by ICTs. And we, as teachers, can also benefit from this mean getting ideas from other people.

The different pages I have visited about blogs are the following ones:

http://blogbasics.com/what-is-a-blog/

http://weblogs.about.com/od/startingablog/p/WhatIsABlog.htm

http://john.do/blog-blogger-blogging/