Blogs – Best Practices

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• Demonstrate to students how to use RSS feeds to deliver information. These feeds allow students to obtain information with fewer steps and can automatically inform students of ongoing discussions without having to login to the system (Kim, 2008)
• Encourage students to allow other students to post comments on their own blogs (Pena-Shaff et al., 2005)
• Relate in-class discussion to the topics posted on the blog. Students tend to be more motivated to participate if the in-class discussion involves their own blog postings (Wang & Hsua, 2008)
• Prepare extra resources related to the topics posted by the participants to deepen the discussion. Links to these resources should be listed so they can be easily accessed (Wang & Hsua, 2008)