How would English language teachers use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?

It is a crying shame in this day and age that so many teachers disregard the importance of technology and don't see the need to incorporate it in the language classroom. However, the fact remains that students today are very different from students 50 years ago. One of the best ways to interest a student, in the present time, would be to use different technological methods, so that the student feels that what he/she is learning is actually relevant to his/her real life.

• Teachers can use blogs when encouraging students to use a particular grammatical structure. For example, if the students that week had just learned about the past tense, the teacher could ask them to create a blog of their own, and then to write about what they did over the weekend using the syntactic structure that they'd recently learned. The teacher could also make the students write a minimum of 150 words a week on their blog, or comment on their friends' blogs to develop their writing skills.
• Wikis can be used to encourage students to hone their reading, writing and creative skills. The teacher could implement an activity or assignment that requires the students to create their own wiki and to fill it with relevant information to the course. For example, if the course is about English history, the students would have to seek out information pertaining to this course and fill the wiki with it. This would make them read and help them to learn how to seek out the knowledge on their own. Designing the wiki to look more fun, creative and interactive would engage the students with the task.
• Using delicious in a language classroom could help to develop a multitude of language skills. For example, the teacher could create a delicious account, fill it with links that would lead to various websites that could help the students to develop their language skills (for example, websites with simple English quizzes on them, instructive videos, etc.) and then ask the students to create their own delicious accounts and start going to the links provided.

The bottom line is that technology is around to make our lives easier, so why not use it to make learning easier and more enjoyable?