Blogging for curriculum sake!

I teach art in a K-5th grade setting. I have utililzed blogging in various ways to enhance my curriculum. I started with a free website called classchatter.com, if you've never tried it our I highly suggest it. It is very easy and safe for students. I have used this as well as a blogspot for several purposes. It is a communal place where students can work individually and collaborativly and as fast or as slow as needed. The communal place allows me to add links, videos, promts, reading material, auditory stories or anything imaginable. Most recently a group of third graders were learning about artist quotes; what is a quote, how do you correctly write a quote, and what is the significance of an artist statement were thier objectives that were clearly posted at the front end of the blog. Students researched famous quotes and posted them. Then they read eachothers and commented on at least 5. Students them created a set of thier own quotes and helped grammer correct errors in small virtual groups. All the while I could watch all of the interactions and progress through the lesson. I truley feel that blogging offers a strategy that can provide diverse learning oppourtunites to my students.