The New Era of Learning Using Blogs and Wikis

Characteristics Blogs and Wikis in Language Teaching Imagine the next scene. We are looking for information on the internet about any topic. We come to a web page where there is a collection of commented links about that topic: an authentic mine. But how is it possible that page X includes one of the best references on the subject at the global level? We invite you to continue accessing our page for more information that we present below.   In the new educational paradigm it is necessary to "learn to learn", since the training does not stick to a certain space and time, but requires a certain capacity for learning throughout life.  In the first post we covered the importance of using social media, blogs and wikis, in classroom. Now, we are going to mention some features that good blogs and wikis possess to implement in language classes.  In the case of wikis, they can provide an efficient, flexible, user friendly and cost-effective interface for collabor...

If you are looking for new ideas to your classes, this post offers you an overview to use  blogs and wikis in educational field. Lets consider that the informatics development has cover all the areas of life from all people. Now, teaching techniques have been a great complement for students learning. Blogs and wikis are useful websites with a great variety information, these tools have been implemented for second language classes to facilitate the teaching process.  Blogs and wikis are collaborative websites, and it helps students cooperative skills and using this website they keep in contact with others. For educational purposes the teacher can create a link to enroll students and also the parents to inform the methodology of teaching.    Nowdays children have the capacity to manipulated whatever digital object, and appling blogs and wikis for learning will exploit their potencial for a possitive purpose. The creation of blogs and wikis do not demand exper...