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You should use assessment tasks that incorporate subversion - One of the worst things you can do is mandate posting on particular topics with particularly rigid frequency… you’ll over-assess & kill off exactly what blogs are good for: personal expression & exploration. By all means say that you’re expecting a post a week… or ever more, but let people approach this in ways that fit them and set tasks that allow for deviation and subversion. Never, ever, mention number of words!

There is a temptation with using a tool like the wiki for teachers to simply introduce the tool and ask the students to use it, and then watch to see what happens. That usually occurs because teachers themselves are unfamiliar with the actual potential of the tool to the process of teaching and learning. While knowledge around this is still growing, we do know from teaching in general that students respond poorly to badly designed assignments with no real purpose articulated as to their connection with the learning outcomes or direct benefit to the student's overall learning experience.

The Bureau of Educational Technology is committed to providing educators, administrators, policy makers, and taxpayers with research and data regarding technology in Pennsylvania.  As such, several major studies and surveys have been conducted over the last 5 years.  The data collected through these studies is designed to assist individuals learn about how technology is used for teaching and learning; and how the various Bureau of Educational Technology grant programs have impacted intended beneficiaries