How to write a blog?

I have created a Bloggers portal at http://bloggers.com/asr3024. This portal is meant to gather the blogs created or to be created by my students who are taking ASR 3024 Design Aesthetics course. To my surprise, most of the blogs I've seen have no post at all. Perhaps I was me who did not convey the message in the class well. So I decided to write a post on how to write a blog.

Blog or web log, should be something one write to express an idea, a thought about something. This is particularly appropriate when the blog was created for a specific purpose, which in this case, for recording the experience and feelings gained in Design Aesthetics lessons.

I guided the students by requesting them to have a five to ten minutes reflexion after each learning session. I also posted some lead-in questions for them to start writing by answering the questions.

In terms of length, blog could be written as long as the blogger likes, which is different from tweet--limited to 140 letters. As for the language, as long as the blogger knew who he or she is targeting at, the blog should be readable...