There are countless kinds of blogs about countless issues. People can decide whether to blog about their private lives or public endeavors. Blogging about English as a Second Language is nothing new. To my mind, ESL blogs should be filled with relevant content, provide adequate links, and be presented in a simple format.

       On the first line we have CONTENT. When you host an ESL Tutor Blog, you must consider being as focused as possible. I have seen blogs that are all over the place, providing students with a lot of different information. I think it is better to have different blogs for different skills. In this way you might as well consider grouping the skills in productive skills (e.g. speaking, writing, grammar...) and receptive skills (e.g. reading, listening..) so you will end up with two blogs under one account.

       To continue, we need to have links that are interesting and important to the material you are blogging about. Since there are so many great ESL sites, we can be tempted and add a bit too many of them as reference. For receptive skills, I would recommend sites like Randall's ESL Lab and for productive skills, especially for  grammar, I would go with ego4u.com. The fun fact here is that you will have to research and find those hidden online treasures and link them from your blog!

       On the last line, simple equals elegant. Try to keep your site as simple as possible. Remember that students' attention must not be lost. Simple does not mean boring. You can use sites like cooltext.com to make your headlines pop (I used cooltext to make my pink buttons). 

       As you can see, ESL blogging is not that hard to accomplish. Just keep it elegant, focused and with relevant content.

Thanks for reading,

Rosmery from Bolivia.