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All the things I want to do with Blogs

OK, Pat, I can see that having students create entire websites with their year long or semester long works might be asking a little bit too much, but I do believe I can use a blog to begin and maintain discussions about what my students are reading. Of course, a blog is a much easier way for students to maintain a virtual writing workshop--compared to what I had with the Young Authors Forum many years ago, except that I don't have contact with the professional writers I used to. I abandoned the YAF due to lack of time to continually create the web and hard copy versions of the publication. Plus, my students and students from other schools who were submitting via email had a tendancy to always respond to the same student's writing....it was a job to try and respond to every one! (That would include my own students and the students from other schools!) So, anyway, I do think the two main goals I'll have this year is to utilize a blog for two purposes: one, an ongoing discussion about the novels my students are reading. (Students do a presentation about their group's novel. They choose the novel--I can post the list here, but titles range from The Bluest Eye to How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents). Students can put websites about the authors onto the site? (no wait, I can do that as an editor but they can't?) Purpose #2: My whole semester is a writing workshop. Students can post stories and poems on the blog and write and get responses by just joining the discussion. This would be similar to the NWP E-anthology. Pat, I checked out your I-Search and I really like the idea. I'm familiar with the process but I haven't done it with my students, but I may change that. I'm weary of the same old research paper, and I would love to see a virtual I-search. I do, however, want my students to hone their writing skills in the process. This is why I've stuck with the traditional paper. Slap my wrists if you will. I have to sign off now, but I'll return. Cathie English