I'm proud to say how happy I am to buck a trend in English teaching.

 

My poor students are bogged down with tons of writing. Eight essays in total per term is the required amount. So I'm 'lucky' enough to have piles of essays to read and correct. That is usually the end of it - the students don't actually learn much about how to improve what and how they write - it's the score that counts here.

 

I'm just happy that my long-suffering students have a chance to read something that I, myself have written.

 

Looking back, I don't think I have ever in my life read anything that one of my teachers had written, so I feel good about myself for what I have tried to achieve with this class blog project.

 

I don't want you to think that it was all part of a clever plan. I couldn't have expected it to work out this way. Interesting new things like this just keep popping up unexpectedly. Serendipitously, I'd like to say.

 

More on the unexpected outcomes of blogging later...