What makes it so important to use ICT in education? The answer comes in one single word: Change! How can we qualify that change? With two adjectives: fast and unstoppable!That's why, for those who wish to change their teaching practice and make it suitable for their students,using ICT at school is truly stimulating.
The World Wide Web has changed our lives, both personal and professional, and most tools that have appeared thanks to it have proved to be quite useful. It is a fact that some disappear almost as fast as they appear, but one has certainly come for good: the blog - "a web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer" (Merrian Webster)or, according to Dave Winer, "often-updated sites that point to articles elsewhere on the web, often with comments, and to om-site articles. A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know." I must confess I prefer the second definition to the first one. In my opinion it has more to do with my idea of what a blog is useful for: communication.
Learning a language demands its use in communication situations and teaching it requires that the teacher is able to put their students in such situations... A blog can help us create those situations outside the classroom walls!
That's why I'm glad we learnt how to create a blog this week... And I'm also happy about having the chance to meet fellow teachers from all over the worlds and to share ideas and knowledge with all of them. I think this week's tasks were not difficult to do, but still they were quite useful. I hope many more will come!
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