“Will you consider including synchronous tools in your future EFL classroom in Saudi Arabia? Will there be any drawbacks?”

I think in my EFL classes I will use synchronous tools because they are so helpful and useful for both students and teacher. Chat and instant massaging  are some of the tools that offer direct contact and a lot of sharing information, they are so quick and less complex. Other examples are the audio conferences and application sharing which I think should be use a side to each other. They cost a lot and depend on the international  participants. Also, web conferencing offer sharing information and presentations but to be useful it need audio conferencing. These tools and some more are costing a lot of money but they help in teaching and learning process. I think we should use them in our classes because we want a better learning to our students. Some of the drawbacks that I expect to face is the financial problems and the digital immigrant wonders why we should use these technologies while we had learned without them. I hope I could use these tools in my future classes without having problems.

How would I use blogs, wikis and delicious with my EFL students

I think that we should use technology in our classes with EFL students for example; using blogger posts to test student's skills in writing and  grammar. Teacher asks the students to write a paragraph as short story or description of an event to measure their ability in writing, and the group's members comment and correct the mistakes of their friends' posts.

By using delicious also, teacher can give the students hyper links to go over and also to share with other some links that useful for the class work . for example, a web site offers  activities that help students in learning vocabulary such as  giving them multiple choices with sentences to choose the correct word.     

By using wiki teacher and students can create a data pace for the group works such as projects and creating lessons such as vocabulary and grammar activities.