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Post a brief bio, quirky fact about yourself, and/or favorite hobby..

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Brainstorm everything you know about blogs and discussion boards

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Issues around privacy, intellectual property, and audience will need to be considered when creating your blog. You’ll need to decide if the blog should be limited to only the students in your class or be made public. Sometimes making a blog public helps to raise the stakes for the students, knowing that anyone could read their work. On the other hand, it might also create a situation that hampers frank and honest course discussions. You’ll have to weigh these benefits/drawbacks when creating a blog for your class.

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An online collection of personal commentary and links. Blogs can be viewed as online journals to which others can respond that are as simple to use as e-mail. The simplicity of creating and maintaining blogs means they can rapidly lead to open discussions. Faculty are using blogs to express their opinions, promote dialogue in their disciplines, and support teaching and learning; students increasingly use blogs for personal expression and as course requirements.

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Build the online writing component into the grading structure

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How to Create FAQ/Blog vs. using the Discussion Board

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Many instructors are using online writing – email, asynchronous threaded discussion groups, and synchronous chat – in their teaching. And both students and teachers are using online communications to maintain personal and business relationships. Here I present a set of guidelines faculty who are just beginning to use these technologies in teaching.