“How can blogs, wikis and delicious be used in the Saudi EFL context?”

  Teachers and learners can use the technology in powerful and effective way.  Technology can be  beneficial tool for communication among the students.

The blogs, wikis, and delicious will help the teacher and the students when they work for educational and other purposes. Also, these websites facilitate learning these days.

      In Saudi Arabia, we can use these websites in education fields. When I become a teacher, I will use the blogs to let the students to feel free when they want to write anything , and at the same time to improve their writing skills and the typing on computers. I can choose certain topic and ask the students to start writing about it and then we read the blogs of each other, comment and sharing the information. Also, I can put a reading paragraph and ask the students to read it and answer about certain questions and this also improve their reading skills.

 

     Wiki is used as a way to introduce the students' works, assignments and give them a chance to collaborate with each other to make their final projects. For example, I will let them to divide themselves into groups and I give them topics, so they can choose one and start working on it, and post it in their group wiki and discuss it with other students. This will teach them how to work in groups and how to be collaborative students. Wiki is a web site that allows students to add and update content on the site. This is made by Wiki software that runs on the web server.  Wiki is created by a collaborative effort of the site visitors.

 

     Delicious is a social bookmarking tool that we can use it to store and share the bookmarks with each other. We can teach the students how to have a new account and to bookmark any website or link which is useful for our classes and our courses and how to get benefit from these bookmarks.

 Teachers can use these websites with students to make an interesting activities and lessons.