To date, I have come up with a short-list of teaching strategies that blogs can be used for:way-making and way-finding - description of surfing activities in cyberspacememe creation and propagation - using self-questioning to identify a set of questions that frame an idea, and responding provisionally to these questions to flesh out the idea in more detail. Then ask others to respond and expand/critique the framing questions from their own unique perspectives.self-talk/back-talk - allowing uncensored flow of ideas, including digressions and tangents, allow the flow of emotions to add/detract from the message. Then go back the next day, or next week, and reflect on what was first written.dialogue rehearsal - have a dialogue with your former/future self, and ask questions, anticipate issues, reflect on past concerns, revise your emotional experience in lieu, forgive, or learn from past events.role-reversal - take the perspective of someone else, and comment on things from another's viewpoint, or from the view of a person who would do sth you would never consider doing yourself - a peron in another career, for example, or in another countryconcept-building - define, describe, identify ideas, link to others' views, work out a sketch of concepts - then review and revise at a later time, over a period of several revisionsemotional rant and reflect - let your emotions guide your writing, flow and rise to certain feelings, then come back again and review the feelings, and see if the rant makes sense, give impressions of the feelings in view of current situationinspiring idea splurges - what if? come up with a off-the-cuff idea and develop it with censoring the content, do not reflect on the usefulness of the inventiion -be creative, and let the idea develop.The tasks are specific to the use of a blog, in which the conversation occurs primarily with the author over a period of time. The blogger has an audience of one. This way the blogger develops a sense of what is important for self, and what processes and interests and concerns motivate him/her to blog. Glenn