Educational Uses of Blogs

• Standard class webpages
• addressing recurring questions/issues
• Interesting developments that relate to the theme of the course (via instructor)
• current events, relevant blogs or websites etc.
• Organization of in class discussion and activities
• Blogging has distinct advantages over more common threaded discussion in its support of style, ownership and identity
• Creating and uploading "how-to" videos
• Group Projects: students create (and present) a group project using a blog
• Requiring students to write their own blogs as part of their grade
• In conjunction with an assignment; e.g. an article review, reading reflection etc.