• Describe one way you engage your students?
• What’s one of your favorite assignments you have completed or facilitated?

• Mobile has swiftly risen to become the leading digital platform, with total activity on smartphones and tablets accounting for an astounding 60 percent of digital media time spent in the U.S.
• Of the more than 50 million Nigerians who use the Internet, 95% do so on a mobile device.
• By 2017, mobile internet market penetration will surpass broadband internet market penetration globally.

Why is writing important in our courses?

What role does blogging have in our courses?

How do mobile devices impact blogging?

1. Outline how you would add a blogging component to your paper tweet example (bonus if it’s mobile blogging).
2. Submit a summary of your outline as a blog post:

iPadPaloozaOU.keeganslw.com

How does the nature of the assignment change if it is posted as a blog?

How can blogging be employed to engage students and yield student success?

Blogging exists at the intersection of:

• digital literacy
• metacognitive reflection
• students as creators
• democratization of technology