this blog will provide those of us interested in theorizing blog use in the classroom with a space to hash out ideas, propose theories, invite readers, and debate their possibilities and limitations

 
I've had some similar experiences to Sandra: the first problem is that studnets in my class who are "low-end" users have frequently started new blogs for every entry, something I'll have to correct in future semesters. I've also found that students have struggled with adding comments (Blogger, of course, requires going to an outside source and inserting the code into the template). No question I'll use Typepad in the future. I also had similar problems with titles for blogs, especially because Blogger's interface doesn't have a space for entry titles.

I did get some sense of audience due to my links coming up on other bloggers' referrer logs. Rachel Lucas even quoted several of my students in one of her posts about my class. I was somewhat relieved to discover that my students were somewhat amused by our publicity, and one of my students took great pride when I mentioned her in my blog. Many of the links have diappeared from Technorati, so if you go to my blog at chutry.wordherders.net/ and search for "Busted," you'll find the links I was describing.
posted by chutry at 8:20 PM