Final blog post: The advantages and disadvantages of blogs in the English classroom

I knew blogs since two or three years ago, but I never felt interest about they. The computer isn't my friend, so I use it just the necessary. Althoug I like to write, I prefer a pen and the privacy from my notebook.

This year I reconciled me with this communication way. In our english class we must open a blog account and post weekly. Ksenia post in her blog the topic for the class and we redacted that we wanted.

I had never write a long text in English before, so first it was difficult to me. I needed to visit wordreference.com many times each day, and I felt tired after the class.

When the semester advanced, I noted that my write ability was better than before. I had not many troubles to say the thing that I wanted, I used less time to write long paragraphs and I had better time!

One of the advantages of the Blog is that you have the possibility to write in every place, at every hour. Internet is accessible, and you only need time to work.

In your Blog there aren’t censorship. You can write that you want, and that’s great. The problem is, and this is a disadvantage, that you have any privacy if you publish your text on Internet. Other people even can post his opinions about your text! I think this is a double-edged sword, because it’s funny to comment and rewiew the comments that your friends do, but I dislike that everybody can acces to the information of mi life. Therefor I’m agree with the blog in our english classes. The topics that Ksenia published was about our life, but never about our private life. I never feel intimidate.

The Blog help you to practise your way to write in english, but I think that this can be better if the teacher make corrections every weeks. I think that today I write more than before, but I don’t know if now I write better.

So, I recommend this way to practise, but it is necessary somebody that say what’s right and what’s wrong.