I did a little lurking this morning and there are some very impressive uses of student blogs this semester. Bill Endres freshman comp course has the students doing lengthy expository essays on their blogs. I read a few and they are very interesting. Of course, Bill is a terrific instructor knows how to draw students into dialogues, whether they are in the physical classroom or the virtual.
Leila Hudson's INDV103 class is one of those big gen ed classes. She has blogs for the certain students and the ones without blogs are posting comments. Again, lots of interesting posts. It's a good look at how some of these young people are thinking in terms of the war in Iraq.
Kurt Fenstermacher in MIS has an mix of upperlevel undergrads and grad students in MIS and computer science. Some students are posting a good bit and some aren't posting much. The ones that are posting are examples of how integrating blogs into the course can work well.
