Learn to teach with blogs

Group writing

Have you tried group collaborative writing with your class? Probably, you know writing as a group has advantages like creating more ideas and promote peer learning. Having a group of students writing on the same topic can promote peer interaction. A blog can also serve as a platform for writing group blog. Multiple users can write on the same blog at the same time. Currently, blogger and wordpress support group authoring function. Students write in the group writing blog can read their peer’s work and comment on others’ writing.

This is particularly good for community based writing.

Here is an example how multi users can write on a single blog. The example is a group blog of WebHeads. They are a group of international English teachers who share a passion on using IT in their teaching. They attended a TESOL convention in Seattle, 2007. They use this group to share and communicate with each other. What is interesting about a group blog is that different people can post, edit and comment freely on the same blog. It is a truely collaborative environment. Although the topic is not about teaching but still you can see how different writers can post their articles on the same blog.

Discussion Questions:

What is a group blog good for?

What application can we use ?

Is there any project possibility with this group blog function?