The first week

1. Provide students with information on how to setup their own blog
2. Create "Gateway to my Blog" or similar forum and require students to post the link to their blog, once created, there to share with the class. Post your blog link to the forum to model for the students what you are looking for.
3. As students post links to their blogs, subscribe to the students blogs in your RSS aggregator. Create a folder for the class and add all the subscriptions for that class to the folder.
4. Require students to create an RSS aggregator account and have them subscribe to the class blog and each of their classmates' blogs. Encourage them to also organize their RSS subscriptions in a folder.
5. Require students to add a comment to one of your blog posts
6. Require students to make an initial post to their blog