MY OPINION ABOUT THE USE OF BLOGS IN ENGLISH CLASS-by Bosco Juliussen

My opinion about the use of blogs in our English class.

This year we have been taught how to use blogs in our English class. A blog is a way to inform and communicate with other people or a group or with many people on internet. Blogs are now commonly used as a way of communication and also as advertising.

In class we were asked to write about a subject of our own choice and sometimes about a given subject like in the case of Nigeria. By writing blogs we learned to think about a subject and formulate in writing our ideas and the content that we wanted to communicate. We learned new words and phrases that we had to look up in order to build our sentences. It was a good way of making an outline of what you wanted to say and then trying to write it down and making an interesting article. Recently we were taught how to use a mind map and this was very helpful in making the outline of the content that I  wanted to include in the article. Every student sent their blog to the teacher and she evaluated the content of the blog and our mistakes before making it available to the group.

The blog is a quite effective way to communicate with others.  As it contains   personal opinions people are more interested in reading  it, as well as it motivates other people to write their own opinion and comment on the subject.  In this way experiences are being shared and one can learn from another  about using the English language  as well as the things that other people have been going through or places that they have visited. It can inspire other people to travel and tell them what to do or not to do. Even though it was a lot of work to  make it,  personally I have learned a lot from writing the blogs as it forced me to think, remember things from the past and to make an outline of what I wanted to write about and finally I was learning new words in order  to express myself properly.  And not least important, it was fun.