With previous semesters, I had some challenges with students clearly submitting AI-generated work. At first, I wanted to put a stop to this by incorporating weekly in-class handwritten assignments, but I soon discovered that it would take a large amount of time to provide suitable feedback on time. This semester, I decided to embrace AI and to develop my Writing and Presentation Skills course by incorporating the digitalisation of their writing by getting students to write blogs. This is despite the overreliance of AI, particularly with auto-generated content and the loss of student voice with their writing.

In this blog post, I will share some personal experiences of incorporating blogging with my students, best practices if you wish to do the same, as well as some final pointers should anyone be interested. As ever, if you have any advice for student blogging, then do please let me know and drop a comment – even if you enjoyed reading my ramblings today.

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