Some of the blog posts for groups will be fairly long. This can mean a lot of scrolling for the user just to see the posted topics. Thus, to make viewing of the various post titles easier, when a group blog has more than one post then I will convert their blog page to a summary view.
What's a summary view? It means pretty much what it says: it shows just the beginning of a blog post. To read the complete post you can either click on the Read More link at the end of the summary, or you can click on the post title. Both links take you to a permalink view where you see that full post, and only that post, complete with comments made by other students.
The downside of this approach is that Blogger does summaries in a "funky" manner. It shows about the first 400 words of a post. That's fine in and of itself, but the design problem is the summary view removes all formatting such as bold type, line breaks, ignores images, ignores headers, etc. So the summary view may look a bit "ugly" in some cases. But, click on the Read More link and you'll see the properly formatted full blog post.
You can see what I mean by visiting the Self-Regulation group blog that just made their second post.
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