How podcasting, delicious, twitter, blogs and wikis can be used with my future Saudi EFL students?

Internet made a great development in all aspects of our life, especially in education , it made a quantum leap in educational field .

About LEFL ,There is a lot of websites which can help in acquisition and learning of English language as a foreign language. For example, websites  as podcasting, delicious, twitter, blogs and wikis can used in teaching ,learning and   improving English language and the basic language skills “writing, reading ,  listening and speaking”. Students  can practice different activities of  these skills, not only in the class but also outside the class “at home”. 

In the future inshaAllah if I become a teacher , I will use different websites in my profession to sharing with my student  and to not working individually but in group , to help each other and to exchange of their experiences. for example, we can use blog to discuss the lessons , or to practice different activities as writing activity , students will asked to produce themselves or to talk about their holidays…etc.

Podcasting can be used and helps in listening skill, I may play video or any audio clip which talks about story or conversation between several people or something else , and then ask my students to discuss or give a summarize about what they heard and understood .

Twitter is one of the simple and useful programs, I really like it , as a tool in education ,it can be used to make a connection between students and their teacher  . I can make special hash tags for our courses to discuss and analyze it, students can bring videos , images and tweets that can supports the topic their ideas.

Wikis is a useful tool in education. I may ask my students to use it to provide them with a syllabus, outlines and notes, it can be a great opportunity for them to collectively build a website, share our thoughts and questions on lessons and work together on projects.

Delicious is useful for reading skill , I may name some books that are related to our courses for my students and ask them to bookmarked it , and read it daily to discuss it in our class.