Being a blog user has showed me a long list of benefits that blogging offers. In here, I will provide a short list of some of these pros to discuss about how useful blogs are and all the advantages we can take out of them.
- Quick and Easy to create: Blogs do not need much work or time to be created. Following a cuple of steps its all you need to create one. The fact that we can easily compare it to a personal notebook makes things very easy. As with wikis, you DO NOT have to know much about technology, blogs are even easier to create than wikis, each entry is just one "word doc", tools provided are clear and we are very familiar with them, and adding images and links its as simple as it can be. Everyone can create a blog, the fact that there are over 150 million of them proves it. Keeping active and updated easily, and that is a great advantage because it is really useful to communicate online and to provide and look for information and clarify doubts by sharing experiences and personal findings.
- Improvement of your writing skills: I believe that having a blog, besides offering you information in a easy and fast way it is also a great way to work on your wirting skill. The best way to become a good writer is to write and write and write as much as you can. As blogs are meant to be read by anyone to whom you want to offer information and give them the opportunity to inform you back, you need to be clear, direct, specific and even clever and witty to keep people interested. Your documentation and the information provided most be good, clear, verified, interesting and prevailing of course, but the way you communicate its very important. So, having people reading your outputs constantly and from anywhere makes you work harder to get to them and get the information through.
- Get Immediate Feedback: This is one of the magical benefits from virtual technologies, working online with other people it's really good to keep it as real as possible. That what blogs do. You can provide information at anytime about whatever you like and people can reply to you immediately from anywhere. This is something that really need to be noticed and be appreciate it. Information can keep on updating automatically by peoples feedback about any topic and you can get quick answers to your doubts immediatly.
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Please feel free to comment sharing the pros that you found out out of using blogs first hand, experiences gives very specific information about advanatges and disadvantages.
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I agree with you: a blog helps us improve our writing skills. In fact, since they can be related to any topic, students could feel more motivated to write in a foreign language (English in this case) because they are writing about their favourite film or book or whatever. So I think this is a very good point :)
ResponderEliminarDidn't we introduce something similar in one of our activities for foreigner classes? Now I can remember: It was in wikis! haha
EliminarOne of the main advantages for learners would be the improvement in their writing skills. In fact, that's why to decide wikis and blogs in the activities we proposed. :)
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