Considerations

• Open vs. closed learning environment
• Can you require the students in your course to make course communications available publicly? What is your institution's policies regarding student communications or work? It is possible to make posts private and/or restrict access to only certain students, but this disables RSS syndication and aggregation.
• Groups vs. networks (via Downes)
• Does your institution already offer / support a blogging platform?
• What is your level of technical expertise? Your students?
• Will you blog for a single course, or multiple courses/sections?
  
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