Literature Circles on Blogs

Kist suggests that teachers moves literature circles from in the classroom to online. I disagree. For starters I found that the 2nd sentence in the section was so stupid. it states, "Teachers are attempting to replicate the face-to-face literature circle experience in several ways." Last time I checked, face-to-face means just that, that two or more people are communicating in person about something. Having your students communicate online about a book or poem is NOT face-to-face. Also, I feel that the teacher is doing this partly because either they do not enjoy allowing their students have free reign of expression and communication in the classroom, or they are simply too lazy to go through the process of literature circles. Another point is this, when a student gives input on a novel in class, I know it is generally what they know or see or think, when they give input through technology, odds are they simply copy and pasted someone else's thoughts so they could get on with their lives on the computer. Have literature circles within the classroom tells me that the thoughts and feelings and discussion right there right then are real, they are not anyone else's but the students speaking and it is genuine. Online is way too easy and tempting to high schoolers and middle schoolers to simply look up something about the novel and rewrite it without even reading the works.