What problems are caused by pedagogical blogging about a class? I am a course TA and I instruct a class of about 20 undergrads. I'm planning to make a public pedagogy blog. I think there could be some potential problems with this. For example, if the students in my class find it, and read "a student is struggling with Y topic", or "I think this student is having problems".

Potentially risky content:


Class plans and preparation
Reflections on each class, including comments on the students
Discussions of course content, and suggested improvements to prescribed classwork


Are there any potential problems I would encounter, given the material I am blogging about?

Possible solutions:


Anonymising my own name
Anonymising all the students' names
Restricting access to course staff (lecturer, TAs)


Do I require any of these solutions?
First, you need to decide the purpose of your blog / your targeted audience.

If you are writing something so your class can be more interactive, you would clearly write it one way (being very careful not to embarrass anyone) - simply removing names might not actually hide identities in a class of 20 students. In this scenario, I don't see a reason to hide your own identity.

If you are writing something for other teachers, to discuss pedagogical issues, then you would write in a very different way. In this case, anonymizing your student names is very important (for different reasons) and you might want to hide your own identity as a way to stop your students or anyone else connecting your writings to a particular group of students.