TheLen

My ideas about blogs in history classes are pretty similar to my thoughts on wikis in educational settings. There’s a lot of potential, but I’m still not sure how things will work out. That said, I do have some ideas about how I’d like to at least try to use blogs in my classes in the future.

I really like the idea of having a structured, moderated course blog. I would be able to post readings and know they wouldn’t change while the students would have the freedom to express themselves and engage their classmates in the comments section of the blog. I also really like the idea of breaking the class into groups — possibly by research interests — and having each group create a blog about their subject as well as the research process.

Similarly, individual students or groups of students could be responsible for leading discussion every couple weeks. The students would be in charge of finding, posting, and contextualizing the readings as well as moderating the comments. They would then structure a class discussion building on the blog comments and after class, post a final summation of the topic and the class discussion.

But, maybe that’s too much information to make available to the world as well as too much to expect?