Having looked over all the case studies for week one, I find they appear to have more in common than not. There is a general consensus that preparing the students in advance is key, to this I add that the staff need to be prepared well too.
It can be difficult to find somthing original to say once the threads have got underway, I guess this leads to some original thinking at times.
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At least where this blog is concerned, don't get too hung up on finding something original to say: it's about your response to ideas that are new to you, as much as anything. So feel free to give your own reactions to the pieces, even if others might have said something similar. Otherwise there's a risk of developing writer's block.
If it helps, you could consider keeping your posts private to tutors only (which effectively means to me only, as we each focus on our own group of blogs). Most IDELers prefer to handle their blogs that way, so we encourage doing that to start with.