What I learn from The two blog sites that Chung-Kai made

The two blog sites that Chung-Kai made show that Internet and Web 2.0 give people many inspiration of teaching methods and instructions. Teachers, teachers for ESL/EFL particularly, can make good use of blog for teaching.

Take Chung-kai's 2 blogs as example. One is for language learning and teaching with Web 2.0, he post many useful information on the blog as learning materials and supplemantary readings. It encourages students to share their opinions after reading them. Blog here serves as a casual chatting room and works better than traditional classroom activities because students will be less embarrassed and more willing to talk about their opinions. The other blog of Chung-Kai's is much like a Q & A forum. Teacher raises questions about ESL/EFL writing, including students' ideas about the topics, the problems they came across in writing and their advice for improving the teacher and his teaching methods. It builds a platform where students and the teacher are equal and bridges the two to communicate and understand each other better.

However, blogs also have its negative side. One is quite obvious. That is the teacher have to push a little harder at the very first beginning to get students involved into the blog-to-blog communicative activity. Otherwise, students often lack motivation to participate themselves.