I found an excellent comprehensive blogging resource for teachers by Bill Ferriter of the Center for Teaching Quality available here. Among the resources is an annotated list of classroom blogs. Mr. Ferriter believes that viewing examples of actual use will relieve the fear that blogging is to difficult to incorporate. I won't still his thunder. Do follow the link.
Specifically for high school English, Mr. Ferriter led me to Nicholas Provenzano's blog, here. Mr. Provenzano uses blogging as a creative writing tool. Finding that students had enough critical writing, the blog serves as a place to respond creatively to visual prompts. The topic is separate from the content he teaches in class. The most interesting aspect of process though, is that he also completes every blog he assigns as a model and to show students it is not simply "busy work." Students are allowed to respond with words, pictures, videos or songs. What a wonderful way to build student confidence!
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