How would English language teachers use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?

 

Nowadays, technologies offer powerful new ways to provide students with direct experience in the classroom curriculum. Using social websites like: Wiki, Blog, and Delicious make learning and teaching  more interesting and can be a powerful and effective technology tool for students and teachers. Technology really help developing and enhancing the learning process

 

 

Using Blogs:

A blog (short for weblog) is a personal online journal. Blogs activities are very beneficial when it comes to shy students. It encourages them to participate and express themselves in a blog. Also it improves student's writing skills, by asking them to reflect on a particular article, or post comments in their collegues' blogs. 

 

Using wiki:

 A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and anything else you can think of. Wikispaces is special because it gives you a visual editor and a bunch of other tools to make sharing all kinds of content as easy for students as it is for their teachers. Teachers can upload many materials, resources, handouts and assignments, it  also allows students to share their findings, materials and everything they know. It encourages group activities.

Using delicious:

 

Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. By using this tool, students will be encouraged to share different websites with each other. It's a useful and enjoyable way to share links that will help them in developing English language. Teachers might ask thier students to search for good websites related to thier units, and share the links with colleagues.