Goal #2 of Student Blogger sites

To follow up my first post tonight on setting up the Gmail and Blogger accounts, there is a second reason that I am having students set these up. The first use will be to post journal entries in French about their weekends, read other students posts and write comments and questions to each other in French about each others posts/weekends. The second goal is to begin playing with the document reader applications and to take some tiny steps forward toward their "French music research projects".

I am imagining that they could share with their own groups via the google reader accounts/blogging and also they could share information that they find along the way with other groups and help each other?? Please let me know if you have ideas on other ways that I can best use this technology and the blogging to improve their overall learning during the unit where we will research some small aspect of French rock music.