The journalism project that Anne and I did is featured in a short article on Weblogs in the new issue of Edutopia magazine.
In the last few years, blogs have turned the political and technological world upside down. Now they’re turning the classroom inside out.
Blogs, short for “Web logs,” are personal online journals; millions exist, ranging from sophisticated legitimate news sources to tedious (and often abandoned) digital scribble. They’re cheap — you can start a basic one free or pay up to $40 a month for special features — and they give an audience to individual reflection and experience. They’re also giving classrooms a new way to face the world.
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