Schoolteachers in Shanghai have fallen in love with blogging: About one in ten now uses the medium to post course content and administer discussions outside the classroom, according to the Shanghai Academy of Education Sciences.
But students, it seems, aren’t so enamored of the technology. Most of them simply ignore their teachers’ blogs, reports the Shanghai Daily. The Daily notes that the blogs "aren’t very attractive to students," but offers little in the way of specifics. So here is a pair of questions that could easily be extended to professors who blog: What flaws can keep a classroom blog from getting off the ground? And once students begin to lose interest in a blog, how can it be reanimated? —Brock Read
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