I have become excited about the prospect of using blogs in an English class. This is a great way to allow the conversation to continue beyond the classroom. In addition to a continual conversation, students can post their reactions to the texts as they experience them. Instead of trying to remember how they felt about something that they read last night, they could now write about them sooner. And the teacher could chime in as needed, to keep students on track and thinking. In addition to semi-free dialogue, as the teacher I could have discussion questions (similar to what we do in this class) to get certain topic to be discussed.
A wiki is also an idea that he grown on me. The class could form a wiki to keep every-one's work together and accessible to everyone at once. Also, perhaps a wiki could be a small version of an info-wiki (like a pretend wikipedia entry) so that students could create a wiki about a piece of literature or a writer, and edit and change it as they learn more. Also a wiki could be a good place for students to accumulate any good resources that they may stumble upon that may relate to the class.
