Blending Learning

I attended a workshop at the recent ESL teacher's conference on blending learning (classroom, computer based, on-line) and considered how this could benefit tutored learners.  Most of our tutors and learners use email and it's a skill newcomers need to do well but often find difficult.  An email conversation is great practice for your learner.  As well, you can assign homework or provide links to web-sites that will help them.  For example, you could ask your learner to watch a youtube video and write a summary to bring to your next session.  Let me know if you try this and how it goes!