"Blogging is–or should have been–a boon to teaching writing, but somehow it never quite got there.
Though professional blogging (ahem) can indeed pervert some of the best parts of writing (which basically amounts to packaging deeper ideas for quick consumption in the high-traffic context of the internet), it has at its heart two of the most important ideas about writing: audience and purpose.
So when you want to communicate with extended stacks of paragraphs–as teachers love for students to do–blogging is great. They’re free, generally easy to use, and allow for students to share their thinking with the world (mercifully removing the primary teacher as the audience for the students’ thoughts).
But what else is there? What else might be possible that can take the best parts of both blogging and the writing process in general."
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John Evans,
Elizabeth Hutchinson