Lara Nieberding

Getting Started With Blogging in the Classroom

In other words, scholars need to read blogs! I cannot overstate this fact enough. If you really want blogging to be transformative and you want it to sustain itself as a powerful piece of the classroom environment, it starts with seeing the philosophy of this genre as authentic literacy: critical reading, connecting and synthesizing ideas, communicating publicly, creating, contributing, community linking and building, and moving cyclically.