Dear Ted, Re your puzzlement about using blogs with a class of 400: I think it would first depend upon how much support you have, say in the form of Teaching Assistants. If you break your group into groups of 10, that's 40 groups or groups of 20 which is 20 groups. With four TAs monitoring 5 blogging groups in the latter case (or less if you include yourself), then you could create assignments that might be manageable. I've frequently used blogs in larger classes (although not that large) and with TA help, it seems to work out fairly well. In my experience, students enjoy blogging; it seems to empower them to create something that is an expression of who they are (there must be research on this topic but I don't know it). But if it is just you and those 400--I'll have to think about that some more. Good luck, Bob Robert Rosenwein Department of Sociology and Anthropology Lehigh University 681 Taylor St. Bethlehem, PA 18015-3169 610 758-3815 rer6@lehigh.edu