The document discusses using blogging to engage students in writing by giving them an authentic audience. It suggests having students create blogs using free applications like Blognize, Pocketmanila, Stickis, or Zcapes, which allow them to easily start blogs and customize online notebooks. To motivate students, it recommends that teachers start blogging themselves to demonstrate how rewarding blogging can be.

1. Another English class - boring

2. How to inspire students to write?

3. Maybe what they need is an authentic audience.

4. Hmmmm… What about a blog?

5. There are many applications available that would allow students to easily start a blog.

6. http://www.go2web20.net/site/?a=BlognizeBlognizewill help students to see blogging as a do-able task

7. Students could create an online notebook and custom make it to suit their needs with Pocketmanilahttp://www.go2web20.net/site/?a=Pocketmanila

8. http://www.go2web20.net/site/?a=StickisStudents can create a running commentary of their lives with Stickis

9. http://www.go2web20.net/app/?a=zcapesStudents can even create a mobile blog with Zcapes

10. All of these applications are free to use

11. So, how to get your students started?

12. Why not start blogging yourself and model for your students how rewarding blogging can be!