Kairos

It is an interesting idea that blogs are more effective, because they are traditionally short and easy to create.  It allows a space that has been rising in popularity  due to its ability to say things at the right time.  The American readership seems to be shifting away from the print media (newspapers, magazines, etc.) in order to get the most up to date news.  They have been shifting to blogs and the internet in order to get material from those who were actually there.  We are moving to a position of prizing the first hand account over the 24 hour new/media conglomerate stations.  The space of a blog fits with a kairotic form of learning that allows the right things to be said, in the correct amount, and at the right time.  Blogs are a great way to promote kairos within the classroom if the syllabus can change in order to suit the students' learning.  The static syllabus cannot attack these issues with the same levity simply because they lack the ability to change to better suit the audience (student and their writing's audience).   If the syllabus can change the material to better suit the audience, or if the syllabus allows the blog as a space for the student's to respond in a kairotic way (due to short concise nature, accessibility, and informality).
I am trying to go back within my own syllabus to see how I can make emphasize kairos within the student's writing.  I think that blogs or moodles as a form of reflection to sum up each week is a good route.  I could also see having the students find material through others blogs that would relate to their topic, and use that as a launching point for their own research agenda and thesis building.  Something like make the students find a blog that discusses their chosen genre (video games, literature, engineering, architecture, painting, etc.) and use it to form an argument that would be written up and turned in through blog or moodle with a link to the original blog they are refuting/agreeing/comparing with/to.  This would allow their own writing to become more kairotic as well as the syllabus supporting it.  It needs more thought, but I think I am starting to be able to see the usefulness of kairos within the syllabus and classroom.
I am trying to brainstorm on other possible ways to make my own syllabus to be able to conform to the weekly agenda that is now required, and also make it adjustable to better suit the students.  I think the assignments could be the key in filling in this gap.  I wonder if there are any other approaches outside of the blog-o-sphere that could also be enabling the use of kairos within the classroom.  Could film & tv be used in this way?  Could a greater emphasis on culture and societal impacts actually make my syllabus more kairotic?  I still keep going back to the assignments as the way to attack this within my syllabus, but what do you think-are there other ways?