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One aspects that is sometimes questioned the blog in its educational use is its verticality, the fact that the writing and production is in that direction and in most cases by individual authorship, collaborative blogs are a minority in the network, although trends can change with practice. Anyway, you can break the verticality of blogs not only through the collaboration in writing but through good coordination of classroom blogs. I show a chart explaining the collaborative work, then move on to explain:

As we see in the image can be obtain a broader and more varied performance of the blogs if orient the work towards a production 2.0 both collaborative and authentic language. Taking the position of an action-oriented approach as noted by the CEFR and we set out to create activities that students will see real results and the like in the example I will develop to benefit from its implementation and commissioning in practice.

The practical example: The teacher's blog or in the classroom, the blue blog listed on the chart, speaks to students at the bars (in this case of Seville) , of sociability through of them, the familiarity of the waiters, etc, etc ... In this text will be proposed to students who choose a bar in Seville and a tapa or two caps to recommend it. The professor offered an example of a bar and a lid, such as blog comment. They will do so through the comments. They explain that the final task will be scheduled several tapas tours and do a little culinary guide in Seville. For all this, students should make an entry in their individual blogs that have selected bar, explaining why recommend this bar, having to describe what the bar, the atmosphere and the food.

In class, read the blog entries and will be discussed to develop the various routes of tapas, that if the organization of the cultural program allows, may be made by students of the school. In the tapas tours may take pictures and videos be uploaded to the blog.

same class will work on developing a culinary guide to the recommendations that have been proposed. This document is available in class or through GoogleDocs. Once the wording and layout with photos and new comments will be posted on the blog again and role in the school for disposal of all.

All these tasks 2.0 give a lot of satisfaction to both students and potential outcomes of their activities in class or at home, both individually and collectively.

Therefore, throughout this work, has been given to multi-use blog: vertical writing entries on their own blogs, reticular to be all blogs connected and, finally, horizontal in the development of various collaborative text generated as a final task. It would be like a blog-wiki-redsolcial.

But the use of blogs in education is not always desirable, it all depends on the type of student who will work with this tool. Perhaps the student profile is the best mold intensive courses, semester or yearly, either submerged or not. I believe that the outcome with intensive students, which are frequently used in immersion, those who are half a month in schools or language centers, given the performance of individual blogs too low for the effort and time has to get used to this type of work.