Class reader blogging project

If you use "class readers" with your students -- ie you all read a book together, either an abridged "graded reader" or the real McCoy -- here's something you might do with a blog, an amazing blogging project done in a Missouri high school as they read Guerrilla Season, which brings in author Pat Hughes as well as the kids.

A class library blog would also make a great project.

Why? A blog gives writing a purpose (it's no longer just to hand it in to the teacher, to keep him/her satisfied) -- so that the learner wants to write.

I think a blog of this nature can also make the learner want to read a book, partly because they want to then write about it -- because it's something being done and shared in a community (the class, the members of the blog...)