The picture above is tag cloud from flickr. The tagging process is a way of categorizing resources. The user of the site can find common interests in the tag cloud. The web is a place for users to get benefit and contribute. The users have to do a lot of reading and writing in discussion forums and when they give feedback and comment in the social networking site.
Blogs are the places to encourage readers to give feeback, so it is a kind of reading and writing activity. Writing on blogs encourages debate, critical analysis and articulation of ideas and opinions. IT is so common to write blogs in the recent years. It has been estimated that around 70,00 new blogs are created every day. The blogs can also integrated with other tools and services. Blogs offer reading and writing practice with informal language everyday. There are a lot of different types of electronic texts on the Internet, such as e-books, online dictionaries, encyclopedias. After the students read the texts online, teachers can give them comprehension questions to test students' understanding.
It is so popular to have a blog for personal use or business use or educational use, etc. nowadays. Some teachers may ask students to have daily or weekly writing. The aim is to let students practise writing more and let the teachers know more about their personal thinking. Some teachers may give them a topic to write about from time to time to train up their writing skills. Some teachers may give them a passage to read and answer some questions about the article to practise their reading skills. No matter which ways to practise students' reading and writing, I think writing on a blog can help achieve the aims of the above. Comparing to writing on an exercise book, the advantage of writing on a blog is more interactive and pictures, cliparts, video also can be put onto it. The other classmates also can read it and give feedback. So, I quite recommend my students using blogs to do the reading and writing exercises.
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