I looked at this blog for the assignment and was very intrigued. The blog outlined and housed a project centered around the book The Guerrilla Season by Pat Hughes that over 300 students participated in. They had weekly discussions with a structured reading schedule. The coolest part that I found was interaction with the author! He was on the blog too and commented and wrote entries! They had a specific part of the blog where they could ask him questions. Additionally, each student had to do one of the five options for a final project and post it on the blog.
This site was a cool resource for sharing insight on one book that all the participants were reading. It was an excellent tool to inspire discussion and bring student's together. I would love to incorporate something like this in my classroom. However, if I did I would want the blog to be a bit more organized. In this example all the entries were in a big list causing any reader to scroll down without any organization in the content. I would make different tabs or links to direct readers and writers to different aspects of the project.
Overall using a blog to bring student's together in reading by using technology is a great idea. It takes the assignment of "book discussion groups" to another level that, in my opinion, would be more enjoyable for students young and old.
A blog like this would be helpful for my class as an English teacher. And good points about making it more organized, that is always helpful, making something more user friendly.
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