Awesome site for Blogging - things to remember when teaching students how to respond. There is even a pdf file available that the teacher has created. On this paper, students are given sample blog responses and discuss whole class whether they would approve the comment.
I wish I would have seen this post yesterday. I had to reteach blogging to our book club group. Mainly, I feel the time constraint/computer issues we had the first two weeks set us back. However, I did something similar to this actually handwriting responses on the white board. The number of posts and details within the post increased dramatically.
This is a brief article about Shared Writing, shared by Mrs. Hilt, found on twitter - definitely thinking about how I can implement shared writing in my classroom.
This is an example of how a teacher uses VoiceThread in her reading groups to facilitate discussion regarding prediction, comprehension, etc. This is awesome - a great way to incorporate technology as a tool in your teaching