HOTS

Blogging is already implementing higher order thinking skills alone, if it is not familiar with it.  Encouraging students to have the freedom to get familiar with the website by simply exploring.  Exploring and not being scared to screw up is learning, or using HOST in the classroom.  In third grade, I could ask the students to blog on the topic of Martin Luther King, or post random sentences that need to be edited by another peer.  This is giving the students the opportunity to learn from each other.