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6 Tips for Making the Most of Your Class Blog

Submitted by Dustin Hixenbaugh 05Feb
We [Heart] Blog
For several semesters I have had students engage in digital conversations using discussion boards on class management sites such as Blackboard and Canvas. This semester, wondering if writing for a public audience would increase their investment in participating in these kinds of digital conversations, I decided to set up a class blog.

Blogging in the Classroom: Not Only Why, But HOW!

Submitted by Rachel Mazique 20Mar
A somewhat frustrated smiley face icon holds up a sign that says "Blogger" beneath the icon for Google Blogger. A grinning smiley face icon with full lips and bright, white teeth points up at the WordPress logo and looks triumphant. In between the two competing smiley face emoticons, we see, in red, "vs."

If you’re anything like me, you may be hesitant to set up a new platform for teaching and writing in your classroom. Or, even if you’re convinced that blogging in a rhetoric or literature classroom is a great idea, you may avoid doing so because you’ve never run a blog, been a blogger, or fear the possible breakdowns of working online in an unknown digital space and losing student work.

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