“I am twittering and blogging!” The headline is taken from one of my students’ recent blog posts. I want to share some recent developments and feedback from my students about both blogging and using Twitter. Let’s begin with the blogs. Each year I start by introducing blogging to my students, and it takes about 10 minutes before they all are up and going. In the beginning some are a little reluctant to post in public spaces but they soon get excited when they find they are writing to a wider audience. When you start using blogs in your class the first apparent advantage is that the class is sharing their work. “The whole idea of having a blog is something I now find fun and useful, as it is exciting being able to share your work with others, and comment on other students’ work.”
“Every week I have to share a blog post as homework. “When it comes to using blogs in education, I actually enjoy it a lot. “There is an ongoing competition in class of who gets the most visitors on their blog and from most foreign countries.