Web II - Blogs for your class

Last time I was in class, I asked Will about the statement in our reading that said something about group Blogs and asked how that could happen. It seems like it is possible to do by inviting others to participate and I was thinking about how to use this in my own teaching.

While we often use first class at our school, it is rarely used for discussion purposes, though we all know that it can be. My question is, "Is a blog or first class preferable for carrying on a discussion about a topic that I as the teacher would suggest?". I'm not sure what the answer is, but given that you could post one question in your blog and allow others to "edit" by adding their thoughts to the post, you could have the entire thread in one place rather than having to open post after post as you do in first class. This would certainly be an advantage.

The other advantage I see is that each blog post would be a discrete topic, with all topics for the course being held in the same place as opposed to the different folders for each topic that we see in first class. So you cold have a nice, neat record of all the discussions that you simply scroll through at the end of the term.