Use of blogs in EFL classrooms

1. What is your opinion about using blogs to teach "writing" in EFL classrooms?

I think this is a very useful tool for teaching, but I consider this tool has to be used when the learner had acuiered the basic knowledge of the English language, otherwise the professor will take too much time correcting the grammar or the spelling mistakes,and the goal of any interesting activitiy will be lost. So in order to have good results in using blogs, is better to have students in more advanced levels of English skills language development.

2. Do you like working using blogs?

I like working with blogs, it's a good way to develop my writing skills and the use of technology.

3. What are some of the advantages of using blogs ?

Some of the advantages of using blogs is that you can work on almost everything you want concerning to the development of writing skills. Another advantage is that we can found many things on the internet that can help make our work more complete.

4. What are some of the disadvantages?

One of the disadvantages of using blogs is the easy way we have in the correction of grammar through internet, and the short range of imagination it provide us, since we just can go to a web page and find everything we need. Another disadvantage is taht we depend on the speed of the computer or the internet, because when the internet is slow the activities can be torn down.

5. Do you plan to use blogs in the future?

I think I can use some time working in the blogs, but I don't like the idea of depending too much on the technology, it doesn't work well anytime we want.

Do you have any suggestions to improve these "lab sessions"? or was everything all right?

I think the work on the blog was ok and I had fun doing the activities, and I think that he professor had a great chunk of time planning the classes in the lab.