I’ve always been an advocate of using students’ interests to teach new content.  I also believe that students learn more from each other than the teacher standing at the front of the classroom and lecturing.  I feel that learning is social and that students need to talk about what they are learning with each other.  My classroom is not chaotic, but it is also not quiet because I  believe strongly that students need to engage in discussion.  It seems like blogging goes right along with my philosophy………….only instead of students discussing content orally, they write about it instead.  For students who are shy, blogging would be more beneficial than classroom discussion.