Two more cents to add to David Warlick's 2 cents

I love how David Warlick structures his blogs. As informative as they are, they are also extremely interesting and engaging to me. Questions or suggestions are added into his blog so that feedback may be received and he can have more material to blog about. This is how I would like to present blogging to my future students and colleagues.

Blogs are a great way to interact with students in your class or even students that live elsewhere in the country or in the world. Your students can set up their own blogs so that they may receive feedback from peers and even have a pen-pal of sorts from a different country. Feedback, whether it is good or bad, can be constructive to help students to better their assignment or project and enhance their learning experience.

Also, students find the internet to be more informative and interesting than just reading a textbook or a printed news source. He's right, even though he may be just joking around: having textbooks that are small enough to fit onto your cellphone screen may be the best way to grab the attention of today's students instead of killing trees and breaking the backs of our children with heavy books.