The use of blogs and chats in teaching literature

This work is about the use of internet in literature teaching, in high school or in the college. For this, we present the report of two experiences done with blogs in three groups of Letters students at the Universidade Estadual de Maringa, in the "Brazilian Literature: Poetry" and "Brazilian Literature Special Topics" courses. After the report of these experiences, pointing the assessment criteria, the methology and the results, we started to consider the use of chats in the literary creation on-line workshops. The results of the educational experience with the blogs are very satisfactory, because - in general - its use is shown as a very positive strategy to make students write more and write different types of texts, be interactive with the contents, with the other students and with the teacher, leaving the passive behavior in the teacher- student relationship to begin to experience knowledge as something dynamic, observing writing as a process. To conclude, we present tips of sites and cultural and literary magazines on- line that can be useful for both students and literature teachers.