Here's the article: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/blogging-in-21st-century-classroom-michelle-lampinen
And here's a comment from the comments section that I found intriguing:
I have blogged with great success with my hs English classes. I achieve this by flipping the classroom -- students read an independent book of substantial literary merit during the class period and then they blog about their reading experience at home. When I survey students at the end of the year, repeatedly, blogging is their favorite unit in the course.
As far as topics go, I encourage them to use their writing as a means of learning. By this I mean that the blog is their chance to think through the key literary concepts and developments of their novels. Students have freedom to write what they want and they have the ability to do it in their own voice. While they find this flexibility scary at first -- because they have always been told what to write about -- eventually they grow to love the absolute freedom it entails. They begin to realize that their thoughts -- not a prescribed topic's narrow confines -- are what matter. I can't begin to tell you what their does for a student's voice and intellectual confidence!
