Blogging with your class is like trying to bake a soufflé without ever having had baked cupcakes or with an Easy Bake Oven

Blogging and Baking? Seems like an odd comparison. Yet, I have had to create the comparison for my own confidence level. As my first time as both a blogger and a teacher using blogging as an educational tool, I have come to realize that the end result is not exactly as I had dreamed. I had pictured in my mind long classroom discussions where students easily pull from their minds comments they read on the blog. Instead, I see great points made on the blog, but, like a soufflé, I see the difficulty in keeping it raised in the classroom. Seems like once the comments leave the blog, they flop like a soufflé when the oven has been opened. I am being too harsh in my comparison? Perhaps. The discussion and connection is there, but I am past the point of denying that the process is perfect. I guess I am still in the Easy Bake oven stage – learning how to modify the recipe for journaling and blogging into a perfect classroom treat. I don’t think Julia Child made a soufflé on her first day at the Cordon Bleu. Thus, I cannot expect my students to be the perfect sous chefs to the blogging experience. Like a deflated soufflé, the blog is still yummy with ideas and writing. With practice the blog with rise.