I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
"The remarks of Donovan Livingston, Ed.M.'16, student speaker at HGSE's 2016 Convocation exercises."
The sky is not the limit, it is only the beginning.
is a
documentary oral history project that records stories
and memories told about specific geographic locations
In each of
these locations we install a [murmur] sign with a telephone number on it
that anyone can call with a mobile phone to listen to that story while
standing in that exact spot
The stories we record range from personal recollections to more
"historic" stories, or sometimes both