Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

     Campbell (2007) stated that a weblog is an online journal that people can express their own word, ideas and thoughts by themselves. The writing can be published on internet quckly just by type and click of a button. Based on Winer & Blood, Campbell stated that weblog is already exist in the beginning of world wide, but the 'blogging software'-self just available in July of 1999. Since the users of blog become considerable, now we can research the usefulness of weblog, without exception the usefulness in ESL classroom. There are three types of weblog that can be used in ESL classroom. First,  the tutor blog. This kind of blog is held by the tutor for learners. It can help students to read and explore all about English, make students become more active with asking them to post a comment, provide class or syllabus information that students can see it easily, and provide a resource of links to make students learn by themselves. Second is the class blog. This blog can be produced by working together of a whole class. It can be the media for students to discuss about classroom discussion topics and communicate with the people from other countries. It can also be a facilitation for students to make some projects in language learning. The last type is weblog software. There are several choices in this time to find the best weblog software. One problem to consider is whether it has installed or not. It strongly recommended for teachers who don't know or support about technic to choose the installed one. The second problem that should also be considered is cost. Tere are several companies offered free blogging software. So, observe and think carefully to choose the best weblog software that you need. That's all the three types of weblog. By mentioning it, hope other practitioners can think again that weblog is very useful to support classroom based ESL learning.

Taken from :
Campbell, A. P. (2003). Weblogs for use with ESL classes. The Internet TESL Journal, 9(2). Retrieved November 20th, 2014, fromhttp://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html