Innovation in Language Learning

The last decades have brought mankind facing a rapid development of technology and the consequent changes at all levels of social reality. Modern man in order to be functional for the conditions that are shaped needs to be "digitally literate". Education plays an important role in this direction since its intitled to prepare the citizens of the future by providing them the necessary skills. In this context, it is attempted to integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into the educational process. Internet and, in particular, the Web 2.0 tools - commonly known as Social Informatics – are recent additions of education systems. Their main features the sharing of material, collaboration and interaction. Blog is one of the tools of Social Informatics, which is widely adopted  by the educational world. Teachers of all levels are looking for ways to turn the blog into an educational tool, students are encouraged to use the blog to create learning communities, parents and administrators of educational organizations are actively participating in the educational communities created through blogs. The features of blog contribute to promoting the communication among members of a school community, their co-operation and the building of knowledge in a social context. Considering the above and the lack of relevant research, this research effort aims at exploring the pedagogical use of the blog in education. Specifically, through a qualitative approach, the content of educational blogs is examined to identify ways of exploiting them and to determine whether there is a pedagogical orientation. The collecting material technique is observation of blogs, while the analysis of the material will be done by the qualitative content analysis. The findings are expected to highlight the existing situation in the pedagogical exploitation of the blog in education and to contribute to the general discussion of the reform of education and its response to the demands of the new era.

Keywords: Blog, education, pedagogical exploitation, ICT;