What to avoid

• Creating busywork for yourself or your students
• Waiting until the last minute to become familiar with blogging and create your own blog
• Assuming students have previous experience blogging
• Letting students figure out blogging all by themselves (structure and guidance is necessary)
• Jumping into blogging for your class without first experimenting with the technology in a sandbox environment
• Choosing to not provide an organizational structure to your blog (e.g. categories, tags, blogroll)
  
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