You both bring up great points. Utilizing blogs in the classroom will be a challenge and require much attention and work with the students.

deidson - I would like for students to post on a weekly basis. If I allot time during station work for blogging, this would be a possibility for all students. I would like for students to respond to other student's posts and share thoughts and hopefully create dialogue and/or respectful debates about books. This would of course require the teaching of proper computer ettiquette and posting respectfully to one another.

Cesar - You brought up a great point that I really had not thought about...cheating. I will have to put much thought into what I am asking them to post so that I can be sure that they are actually reading the books and not merely researching the book and copying what others are saying. I have used articles that are available as pdf's but have not used e-books. That is actually a great idea...I will have to check them out to see what is available for my upcoming lesson. Thanks for the idea!