So far the best blog (or, should I say, the one I enjoyed reading the most) was Senior Writing 101 (with the Nelly Nells a close second). They had active discussions, with long paragraphs. You could tell that they were actually arguing for and against various things, as opposed to the other blogs, where a lot of the posts were the same thing repeated four times in the same paragraph, with poor grammar and sentence structure. Both blogs have many hyperlinks and I saw a few videos while digging around in there. My favorite(?) blogging moment from the other groups would probably have to be Dan's 6-paragraph rant about field day and the bucket, which I fully agree with.
Blog groups only work when you have interaction, and interaction (in class projects) usually only happens when the people involved (a) know each other and (b) chose their groups. I don't know about the other groups, but our group has thus far been dead silent except for the small flares of required activity around deadlines (no offense to anyone, but it's kinda true).
I don't know if it would have been any better in other groups, but that's just how forced-group projects usually go in my experience. I feel like this could have gone better as a class-wide blog, all of us able to respond to posts and to each other. Probably would have been a lot livelier.
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