[tips] using blogs as an alternative to journals

[Traci Giuliano]

I'm thinking about converting my journal assignment to a blog assignment 
this semester in my social psychology course, and I was hoping that some 
of you with experience might offer some advice. Some issues I'm 
especially interested in are (a) what program/website to use, (b) 
whether to make the blogs public or private (if that's possible), and/or 
whether to give students a choice, (c) how to assign points to student 
entries (e.g., are students required to make comments on other students' 
blogs? how is quality graded?), and (d) is there a way to make the blogs 
accessible at the same time so that students don't see other students' 
entries until the deadline (e.g., so they aren't unintentionally primed 
to write something similar)?Also, if you wouldn't mind sharing links to 
your syllabus (where you discuss the blog assignment) and/or a link to 
the blogs themselves, that would be especially helpful. Finally, any 
additional hints that you'd like to share with a first-timer would be 
much appreciated!!
Thanks!

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