Bloggie~~~

Blog is very wide-used tool in this cyber world (internet)...Many people use it to promote their products and items, to share their experience or their lives, to earn money from advertisement in others products and etc...However, I never heard about people use blog as a teaching tool...Well, I have a friend who is now using this tool to teach his students instead of using it as a diary...

He writes all the assignments that he gave to his students and uploads his teaching slides that he had taught in his classes at his blog and asks his students to go to his blog to get the information. Besides that, he is also asking his students to create a blog and he will link them in the blog. Then, he will ask his students to post some passages in their own blog, in English, so that he can read their posts and give some comments on their posts...Well, I forgot to say that, he is an English teacher, who is now teaching at Taiwan...He is a PHD student, who study at Birmingham, and now he is doing research on this method (teaching via blog) in Taiwan...Only I can say is, this research is brilliant...

Just now, I had visited one of his website, which is VoiceThread, and inside the website, it is like a presentation, there are slides show, but with VOICE on the show...It is not live, but is a voice record...This mean you can record your voice, and upload the slides and the sound clip together...It was surprising me, because it is really like a presentation ON-LINE...Well, maybe I am so outdated, so I dont know anything about this website. However, Internet is really a good tool to be used in everything...

PS: After watching the slides show, I found out the level of English in Taiwan is quite low...I dont mean to insult them, but its true...The vocabulary they learn in UNIVERSITY is like a secondary level in Malaysia...Well, maybe they are not focus on English during their secondary level...