Tips

Tips to start blogging.

Do’s

1. start blogging and reading blogs yourself first

Don’ts

1. don’t correct your students posts in the comment area. If you need to correct them, use Google Docs or a wiki to do so beforehand. Remember that correcting every post does not encourage student autonomy and makes students anxious and dependent on you.
2. don’t use blogs to post assignments to material the context of which only the class is aware (eg. questions about a text they have read or grammar exercises). A blog is a space for conversations open to the world and not limited to classroom jargon. Use a LMS like Moodle or Hot Potatoes to do so. Read A. Campbell’s post on this.