Like Instructor Alex Mitchell over at the Communications and New Media Programme, Associate Professor Adrian David Cheok, Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, gets his students to blog.
The MXR Blog is a group blog running on Mambo, where team members of various projects report on their progress and reflect on their learning. While Alex lets his students create their own blogs and subscribes to their RSS feeds for updates, Adrian maintains a blog platform on the Mixed Reality Lab servers so that all the blog entries are in one location.
Although NUS Module Blogs are by default for staff posts only, we can enable student posting. However, there are a couple of caveats. The most important one is that our blogging platform, Community Server, does not distinguish between posting permission and blog management permission. That is, if you can post, you can also manage the blog. Enabling student posts will require a great deal of trust as they will be able to edit and delete each others' posts and comments (among other things).
Also, group blogs are less effective in classes with large attendance. If you have a small class and have specific learning outcomes in mind, then a group blog becomes more suitable. Let us know if you have any ideas for a group blog for your module.