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As low-achieving students face difficult time at school and usually experience low motivation to learn, blogging in the classroom might be used as a possible way of motivating them through its use as an e-portfolio (show-case blog) for students to show their work. The researcher used case study approach to examine 11th grade class (n = 22) Arab male low-achieving students in a secondary vocational school in east Jerusalem during the first semester of 2012/2013 academic year. Through continuous observation, content analysis and interviews with teachers and students the researcher studied the students and their individual blogs that they used to submit assignments from their official curriculum. The research results show a positive correlation between student blogging and student motivation, but there is more important consideration for the setting since low-achieving students are different, like type of assignment used, authenticity of assessment, and teacher efficacy.