Blogging

I know we are at the end of the session, but one topic that I am interested in that I don’t think we have talked about is the evaluation or assessment of student blogging. If you have to give students grades, how do you or would you give them credit for blogging? Would you count the posts and comments, evaluate them and grade as you would any writing assignments, or what? I would be very interested in our collective thoughts on this.

I have had some success with getting students to write blog posts, but I have never been able to get them to comment on blogs. I would like to know what ideas others have about this topic. Do you think commenting is an important part of blogging or not? If you do, what can we as teachers do to encourage commenting? 

I wanted to share with you this blog post created by Konrad Glogowski.

What do you think about it? Do you agree with the assessment criteria? How would you evaluate your students?