When you do this in your class with students, would you have a page for each class or would you only assign a certain number of chapters per class? For example, one class would do chapters 1-5, another class would do chapters 6-10, etc. That would definitely extend the network to all your students Do the producers of the content have to monitor the comments and answer questions posed by other students or would the instructor be responsible for answering questions?
Have you thought about using a Google Form for evaluations? I was trying to figure out an easy way to distribute the peer evaluations in my unit and I have a brainwave. Use a Google Form and then you can sort and filter the data in the spreadsheet to save time for the instructor. Just a thought.
Great unit! I think your students will enjoy discussing their novel with their group member and going outside of their class to participate. Do you meet with your students face to face at all or is it all online? I teach the same age group and I know my students would love it if they could work with other students that may not be in their class, they are always asking me if they can do projects with my other students.
I don't know if I missed it, but do you have instructions for how they are to follow each others' blogs? Also, are they following every one of your students or just the students in your group? And finally, is there supposed to be a link for the evaluation of the blog entry?