The Blog invasion of Foreign Language classes

I have to admit that I never truly understood the term blog or blogging until after I created my own, and read some posting made by my classmates in the technology class in the MATSL program. I’ve heard my students talk bout it, and I know how popular it is among them. As teachers, we can take advantage of this popularity effect to incorporate it in our classrooms to support reading comprehension and writing. Here are some ideas that could allow us to do that:
1. Create a classblog and ask students to enter responses/reactions to posted questions (by the teacher).
2. Blog with students from different countries/schools in a joint blog (blog pal)
3. Have students write reflections/ questions to initiate blog discussion.