example of research/learning blogs and student product

This class website shows both process and product for this class on gaming and education. The content is interesting and the student work impressive. You can see the students research-in-progress in their blogs and then their final product as a .pdf doc. BUT: I see from the blogs many of the struggles I see with my own student blogs. They aren’t posting as much of their process as I would like to see, or using the blog as extensively as they could. I also don’t see them using the blogs for peer interaction. I keep thinking of my students last semester telling me how they liked popping into each others’ blogs just for inspiration, and not necessarily leaving comments. I keep looking for the best ways to get students to use blogs for learning.