A World of Possibilities

I am not sure that I will continue this blog because I think that the News page of the eCommunity or the Discussion threads can serve as a blog. However, I may wish to establish a blog for personal use such as family trips…

Students can practice their skills in the target language by creating  and publishing on blogs.  A beginning student can compose simple sentences and ask questions using vocabulary and structures that they learned in class.  More advanced students can respond to discussion questions or prompts provided by the teacher or their classmates.

I see blogs as an excellent tool for teachers of less-commonly taught languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic.  They may often feel somewhat isolated and could use blogs to share ideas and resources.

I have learned, however, that blogs require time – and the commitment to keep them current – or the audience will be lost!