Creative+Blogging

**Some ideas for activities from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml**
 * //**Mystery guest.**// Invite another teacher or someone from another school or country as a mystery guest to your blog. Ask the students to engage him or her in dialogue and guess their identity.
 * //**Project work**//. A blog is an ideal space for developing a project, especially if the project is a shared one between several classes or even classes in different countries.
 * **//International link-ups.//** Contact another educational establishment to see if they are interested in a joint blogging project. Students can write about their lives, culture, interests, etc, and be encouraged to read about the other class and respond by writing comments.
 * **//Photoblog//**. If you plan on using photographs in your blog, there are lots of tools available to help you. Flickr [|http://www.flickr.com] makes publishing photographs to blogs easy. If you want to make photographs central to the blog, however, it is better to use a blogging tool such as Buzznet [|http://www.buzznet.com], which is a photo publishing tool and blog rolled into one.
 * **//Letter//**. Using the current novel, short story, or poem students are reading, allow students to become one of the characters. Include details about what they are doing or what they are planning to do. Have them write to another character in the novel or to someone specific, like the principal, the librarian, George Bush, etc.