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The second approach involves drawing upon the factors of motivation intrinsic to each student. In this case, the teacher takes a qualitative approach to getting students to blog, encouraging them to write about their interests, use social networking tools to meet new people, post photos and sound files, etc. An important aspect of this approach is to see the act of blogging as something fun, expressive, enjoyable, conversational, and poetic. The blog can and should be anything the student wants it to be. The teacher sees herself as a facilitator of a process of creation, not as an enforcer of behavior. She makes no demands on quantity and does everything she can to inspire her students to blog through her own examples, stories, enthusiasm, and passion. Qualitative and reflective self and peer evaluation are both encouraged