How do you engage students outside of class? Invite them to create and share a blog. It's very simple to create, post to, and read postings on a blog. And it's easy to share your blog. In a class, you can encourage students to post their thoughts on a reading, class discussion, group project, etc. A student blog makes it possible to share their thoughts with you and other students in the class.
Reading your students' blogs can be made more efficient by using an aggregator. During this FITSI 2008 session, you'll be introduced to Google Reader.
This blog was created to give professors experience reading and posting to blogs. With this experience, they may venture to include blogs in their courses as a space for students to exchange ideas.
