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Currently, many educators attempt to use Digital tools in their teaching experiences because their interest to involve more students in their class discussion, also to make the class more collaboration to learn. These kinds of tools help students to learn and improve their knowledge of using technology. In other words, using this technology in professional academic learning is more beneficial than only use it in entertainment way. The most common Digital tools for teaching is Blog, which is according to Johnson (2011) “online journal for one’s thoughts, feelings, and ideas” (p.42). This tool helps teachers to insert their thought or comment about their class. Also, it helps them to include explanation or links related to their lesson. To create your own educational blog you just need email account to access and sign up for blog account.  

 In other word, according to my observation and interviewing to some teachers in US, I found that this tool is a good digital tool to adopt in learning environment because students now are more interested to have a variety of technology tools including blogs in their class lesson. I would use blog in my teaching lesson, so I will insert some explanation, links and also questions to help students learn from each other thought. In my country Saudi Arabia, it stills this tool unpopular in the education field, but I will encourage my students by applying this tool in the teaching lesson. I think this tool is useful for the student who did not attend the class, so s/he will find what they miss. Also, if any students have questions or comment, I and the students can help him with a good answer. Moreover, this technology tool is helping the students to reflect their opinion, though, and idea about the class and any suggestion about the future lessons.