Blogging in my classroom

I teach a high school web design and development course to 10th through 12th grade students that I do believe would have good use for a blog site to help them with the course. I could set one up for my students to share html code ideas and tips. They could share design concepts and scripting language ideas. When I get into flash, they could post links to helpful websites and share their flash work and how they accomplished them. I think this would not only benefit the students in my class, but I believe that I would learn a lot more about the course I teach, and stay on top of the current technology trends in our society. I think that a class blog site would allow me to see how talented my students are and where they may or may not be struggling in class. I know that some students will always do the minimum in class, and there are those who go above and beyond my expectations. Having them interact with each other through a blog might motivate the unmotivated to be more creative and produce better quality work! Using a blog that they could access from home would allow them to show their parents the concepts and projects that they are working, stay on top of things if they missed class, and share new fun ways to do things that they might discover outside of the classroom.