Top Reasons for weBlogging in Class

We have been using blogs to share ideas and resources. Micheal Nelson uses blogs successfully to enhance classroom delivery. He has made up a short list of reasons to blog. I particuarly relate to the following point:

Encouraging your learners to learn beyond the course
Beyond the course both in content and duration! As you develop your own skills using a blog for learning, your learners may be encouraged to join the network and start contributing themselves (lessening the dependence on you - the “teacher” - providing the content!)

I believe this to be the key to our use of social software, it liberates our learners from instition controlled frameworks enabling them to grow their learning and own it.