Tools for teaching

"A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micto-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technocratic was tracking more than 112 million blogs. With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something."
There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.
Personal Blogs are very common ongoing diaries; they are more than a mere way of communication but a way of reflexion and can become very popular. There are "microbloggings," which are extremely detailed blogging because they want to keep a specific moment in time. Some bloggers, like Twitter, invite to communicate instantaneously with friends and family, they are quite fast. They can be private, for business, communication within a specific community, or in a corporation for marketing, branding, or public relations (corporate blogs).
Question Blogging is designed for answering questions from a submittal form, email, telephone or VOIP. They can even show notes from pod casts. Many question logs use syndication to get answers the questions.
By Media Type or "vlog" comprise videos. They can be link logs, sketchblogs, phothoblogs, gumblelogs or Phlog (Gopher Protocol)
By Genre They are blogs which are focused on particular subjects. For example: "political blogs, tavel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical usic blogs, quizzing blogs and legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or dreamlogs."
Advantages: *Blogs help to comunicate with people who have not a great social life.
* There are a big variety of blogs that lead to the creativity for the formation of others. Besides, they are for everybody.
*A right employment of blogs promotes the acquisition of a better information and learning about many topics.
*It is a way of communication opened to everybody. So, blogs provide a wider point of view about different topics.
* It promotes feedback and the increasing of ideas.
Disadvantages: *The communication with other people is through a computer and not personal.
* Blogs can facilitate deceits in different ways from many people.
* People can find many words and little really interesting ideas (being a waste of time in any way).
* Updated information.
Implementation: To keep a blog depend on its content, which must be interesting, wide to a big amount of interests, updated, etc. and its use. It can be highly implemented at school as a tool for research. At the same time that the education of its use. It is necessary to show the importance of the use of technology and awake the curiosity in people. So, they want to learn more about "web log."
Hand out the slips of paper.
Ask everyone to close their eyes and listen for one minute to whatever sounds occur.
Tell them to open their eyes and write what they heard on slips of paper. Tell them they can ask you for any English vocabulary they need but don't know.
Ask everyone to say what they have written down. Write useful or interesting expressions on the board; also, take notes for yourself because you will need a record shortly (Step 6).
Lead pronunciation practice.
Wipe the board clean then dictate the expressions you have just erased.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog (This information is mainly taken from this page but it has some few modifications into my words and ideas) I have complemented the information with pages like: www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2004/nt_2004_08_23_blogging.htm