How many kinds of blogs?

[lauraeffe]

In these days I'm reflecting about the different kinds of educational blogs and I would like to discuss about the usefulness of setting up blogs in a foreign language class: how can we foster students interaction in order to improve their skills?
How can we make students be in connections with colleagues through their blogs?

[Mirna Jope]

There are 'meta courses' that can be set up in a Moodle (moodle.org). You could have different classes communicating with each other through that. On the high tech end, you could Skype with a class overseas or videoconference. Occasional synchronous contact would keep the forum contact a little more interesting.