Weblogs in education ESL/EFL

Weblogs are useful tools since its creation and its principal porpuse was as a tool of expresing everything you want or you are thinking. Weblogs can be personal, for business, thematic, fotoblog, audioblog, and the newest Cell Phone blogs. In an academic way we can use blogs as a tool of feedback, giving and receiving works, tutorials, portfolios, evidences by using pictures, videos, PDFs etc. Students can use weblogs to show what they have done in class, also they can use it to give homeworks and create portfolios. It will help the teacher to qualify his students in a easier way. We can use tutorial in a blog because we can show or teach whatever we want step by step and also by videoblogs showing how to do something. Also we can use discusion because many people can talk about the same topic in a blog or add something to his or her classmate work.