The article focuses on studying the image of a current foreign language teacher in socialnetworks as well as defining the attitude of students to the teacher and teaching blogs in the social networks through the audience’s feedback. It also deals with studying the methodological approaches of blogs and content presentation features, alongwith identifying the educational blog specifics of a today’s so called digital educator which affects the audience’s perception of his/ her image. The public impression of a foreign language teacher is viewed through the prism of the digital educational space which is represented by blogs on vk.com. The platform is considered an effective linguistic and didactic tool for learning a foreign language (English). The image of a teacher is analyzed through the significant characteristics of a teaching blog including the blog content as well as the ways of presenting the content. The significant role of the visual representation of the material studied for its productive development is determined. Emotional and entertaining components of content presentation by the teacher are characterized as the most demanded ones.

Keywords: teacher image, mobile technologies, social networks, English teachingresources, teaching blog, humor as a teaching tool.