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• 22 Sep 08
  

  Maria Cornish

  Blogging, and the easy access to--and exchange of--ideas that it has spawned, is having a "transformative" effect on education, according to the winners of the first-ever eSchool News "Best of the Education Blog" Awards.

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• 03 Sep 08
  

  Michelle Krill

  Blogging, and the easy access to--and exchange of--ideas that it has spawned, is having a "transformative" effect on education, according to the winners of the first-ever eSchool News "Best of the Education Blog" Awards.

  its blogging article eSchool

  • giving educators and students an unprecedented opportunity for easy self-expression and reflection that anyone can access--and to which anyone can respond.
  • There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher,
  • So, what makes a good blog? The quality of its ideas is important, panelists said, and so is the personality of the blog and its writer. It's important for this personality to come through, so that "you really feel like you're having a human interaction,"

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  Michelle Krill on 2008-09-03
  This says it all!
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  Michelle Krill on 2008-09-03
  I saw a presentation that said students only write for an audience of like 43 people in their educational career K-12!

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