Whil Richardson '' Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms''

In this book Richardson provides a pragmatic and accessible description of the read/write Web.      Richardson explores both the tools and the potential impact these tools have for our classrooms, our teaching, and society.The book is really interesting and gives us good information about new technologies. It has become abvious that blogs can promote students critical and analytical thinking. Nowadays blogs are being used as class portals, online fillng cabinets for studnet work, e-portfolios, knowledge management and even school Websides. In this case the studnets have much more opportunities to think critically and analiticaly.

 Wikis interrelate people together. If one wants to tell his/her friends something, he/she can sign up in wikispaces.com write his idea and everybody can see it editing answers to the written idea. They also motivate students to learn. I also want to mention that wikis help students to study out of classroom. They can join the wikispaces wherever they are if they have access to the internet, then if they join it, they can solve problems with the help of each other, discuss some questions, and give answer to difficult problems.  A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of video, PDF and audio files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile devices. Podcasting has several advantages. It improves pronunciation, listening skills and also it improves writing skills, if one writes reflection after each episode he/she has listened to or watched. 

"Am I ready to introduce blogging to my own EFL class? 

 I exactly would like to do with it in my class  in terms of assignments, technology access, assessment, parental involvement.
Frankly speaking I liked blogging. It's really a huge and wide technological tool that can help teachers to make their lessons more innovative and intresting. It could help the students to share their ideas, to find new informations  together, to discuss new things. For EFL class it could be new thing, and the students would really like the idea and work with tehchnolgical tools. They would do their homework assignments with pleasure I guess, As the schools don't give the needed things and knowledge that new generation wants. They want to work with new technologies, new digital tools and describe the secrets that they couldn't find or search.