Improve the collaboration between students and make the curriculum more interesting!

• 1.  Enhance the collaboration among students. My major is in TESOL, which is a course that needs a lot of English writings. I think I will let my students write blogs in English every once a week to express their feelings of the week and some understandings of the curriculum. Other students could read and add comments to this student’s post and interact with each other online, which will save a lot of time and also could let the students really thinking about other’s opinion and actually get some insight from their peers. 
• 2. The blog interaction is a stage for student’s learning from each other. This way could give students a more directive way of thinking and encourage them really thinking out of the box and be creative and critical thinking. Furthermore, the blog is not exclusively to the classmates and the teacher, but as the Internet is an open area that even the whole world could see. Probably, people from other counties of the world could share the information and make some comment to interact with your students. 
• 3. As we all know that, with the technology developing time by time, our students also growing up in the circumstance that far advanced than the circumstance we grew up. So interaction online through blog is a trendy way that most of the students preferred and probably thinking this is so cool. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Also the students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
• 4.Standard 2: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the area of language arts. Enhance the interaction between the teacher and students. It is a Digital Age, so teaching also should keep pace with the time in order to make your class more vigorous, interesting and more meaningful. It is a way that much easier to encourage or correct your students. For example, if the students have some good sentences in his or her article, as a teacher, you could just post a new entry picking up your students’ good English sentences. In this way, the students could feel encouraged enough to trying their best to learn the course. The students could also discuss about some learning topics with their peers online by writing or record an audio.
• 5. Also as a teacher, I could just add some extra online teaching sources, which are relevant to the curriculum and give the student’s a further understanding of the course. Also having a blog on which the whole class is sharing their information is timesaving. The whole class needn’t to go to school only for a discussion. They could do the discussion effectively at home and students could have different kinds of audiences (like commonly in-class discussion, the teacher divided students into groups and only a few group members could share with the information) Here on blog, the audience is everyone in the class and teacher could easily participate into any discussions and get to know what level had the students achieved.
• 6. Interaction with the parents.Especially for the students who are at lower grades and need more interaction with the parents. The teacher could just tell the parents the website    of the blog and ask them to constantly check it out, having a glimpse of what their children really doing at school and how’s their grades etc. Teachers also could get an instant reply from the parents and to help the students together. All in all, the blog is just so helpful that could bring many benefits to the students, teachers and the parents.
• 7. Check out the reference links below:

blogging for large classes 

advancing digital age learning
These two blog posts did a great job in demonstrating how teachers could integrate blogging teaching into their daily teaching and these two blog posts are so helpful to widen teachers' lesson plan choices.

• 8. Using Internet and blogging to facilitate teaching is a fashionable and trendy way to attract students more and further interact with both students and their parents. Like teachers could observe some typical language errors in the students' daily communication or during class activities, but not speak it in person, because it would harm the face of the students. In a savvy way, the teacher could post an entry on the blog and give some tips and instructions on how to correct those language errors.
• I can put some videos and audios on the blog so that the students could get practiced not only by listening but also by speaking, reading and writing (by post their own reaction or thoughts to the audio or video) that meet the standard of PreK-12 language proficiency standard:
  Listening is an active skill. By highlighting an assortment of listening tasks across standards, the need to involve students in active listening and purposeful listening skills development becomes clear.They could use English to communicate with each other and express their ideas in simple sentences.