Regardless of how an instructor shapes his or her assignments, however, the biggest challenge instructors face is to construct effective assignments that encourage students to move beyond summarizing course materials.
Once the voluntary nature of posting and commenting at will becomes required, students may try to merely meet the requirements rather than facilitating processing of information and learning.
The following includes several diverse opportunities that blogs offer for classroom use:
- Individual student projects where students can reflect on data, related topics, or demonstrate mastery of lectures
- One class blog for community learning
- Blog authored by the instructor to extend course material
- Weekly summaries of research, data, analysis, etc...
- Record new vocabulary
- A student/instructor blog that nurtures discourse
- Explore hyperlinks in other blogs
- Post on cultural topics, products, practices, and perspectives
- Record travels or/and read travel blogs
- Journal keeping
- Student portfolios
- Argumentative, Persuasive, Call to Action
- Read and review academic blogs
- Various collaboration Project
- Reporting and Critical Analysis
- Language, ESL idea sharing
- Academic Blogs for publishing individual texts
- Publishing larger texts (memoirs, etc...)
- Professional sources for sharing opinions research, and discourse
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