Some Tips for using blogs in feminist and queer classrooms:
- Successful blogs require assignments that are more than just offline assignments posted online.
- Think about the blog as a location for reading and writing and reflect that in your assignments.
- Bring blog entries, comments, and discussions into your offline class sessions.
- In order to get students to use the blog, you must make it worth their while.
- Spend some time at the beginning of the semester training students on how to use the blog.
- Spend a lot of time really thinking through all of the details of your blog assignments.
- Don’t be afraid to experiment with new techniques on the blog.
- Don’t just assign weekly blog posts to your students that involve responding to your questions.
- If you want students to be excited about the blog and take it seriously, you need to too.
- Complete at least some of the assignments that you require your students to do.
- Blogs work better in the classroom when we read and think more about what kind of teaching/learning practice blogging is (and/or could be).
For more details on these tips, see here.