We the “early adopters”have been playing with blogs in our classes for awhile now. We’re loved them just for the sake of loving them. We’ve evangelized them to our peers and our students, with mixed success.

But now, blogs must pull their pedgagogical weight. It’s no longer enough to just put a student blog collective online and see what happens, or to send your students to Blogger and allow them to pretend like it’s the same experience as writing a paper journal that they turn in to their teacher. —Stephanie Holinka —And The Crowd Cried out for Pedagogy (Weeblog)

Another CCCC blogger reflects…