Plan of Attack?

Sargent Park's Grade 8 Math Zone is the blog of a math teacher and his four math classes. He has a central hub and then a blog page for each of his classes for. His 36 students (per class) are each contributors on the blog page. They write their own blog entry on that main page.

Mighty Writers is a blog of third graders. Each third grader has his or her own blog linked to the teacher's main page. This seems like a lot of work to set up. I'm not opposed to a lot of work when it benefits the students, but this year I am implementing two new programs (Everyday Math and SRA Open Court). We didn't use these in Canada; hence the load of work.

I think this year, I just want one blog to which we all post and comment. I don't want it to be simply journaling, though. Students could do that on paper. If blogging is to be meaningful, it needs to be more than doing on the computer what could be done on paper.

Next step: Find Guiding Questions to which the students can respond. I need to find Bloom's Taxonomy so I can think up questions in which the students can probe and ponder a bit.

Question: If I use the single blog model with multiple contributors, can two students working on individual computers blog at the same time? If they can't, then I need to change models.