Blogs - the learning experience?

I'm helping with a Knowledge Management class where we've introduced blogs as part of the learning and reflection process. Since this started, I've naturally noticed other efforts to use blogs to aid the teaching/learning process.

Derek John Boczkowski (of Ohio State University) had his first year writing class leave comments on blogs mentioned in the book Never Threaten To Eat Your Coworkers: Best of Blogs. A large number ended up on The Defective Yeti, Matt Baldwin's site. The results? The educational experience has been taken beyond the classroom. Everyone and their brother is now involved in the comments, the quality of the assignment, the results of the assignment, the class blogs, etc. I'm not sure if Boczkowski's students will end up better writers because of this, but it has been an interesting display of networking and high-profile blogging.

Anyway, it gave me the giggles because I had a vision of our KM class commenting en masse on David Snowden's blog. heheheee...I'm easily amused.