Blogging in the classroom

I am very excited about how I am going to use blogging in my classroom. My co-teacher in Birmingham, Alabama and I are going to do an on-line book study together. We are going to read Horrible Harry and the Holidaze together in December and teach QAR as a questioning strategy. As we read each chapter, our kids, who are already paired up as pen pals, are going to ask each other comprehension questions using a private blog that my friend has set up. We will respond to these questions by identifying what kind of question it is (right there, think and search, author and me, or on my own) and then answer the question based on the information they have read. We are going to do this each week in computer lab. If it goes well, we are going to do it with Sara ain and Tall as well in the spring. The nice thing about this is that the higher kids and answer their own pen pal question but also others if they have time. I am very interested in how this will all work.