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Blogs give students and audience

 * This article is about a woman who was inspired by an educator who created a blog hoping to inspire her reluctant eighth grade writers. She decided to ask the educator some questions about the blog. The students posted poetry and journal entries. The most surprising thing about the experience was the praise and feedback she and the students recieved from others reading their work.**

[|Blogs, blogs everywhere: Does everyone need an internet journal?]

 * A man pondered the real power of blogging. His conclusion is that the person who writes the blog is benefiting even more than the reader. The act of writing, preparing, and revising creates the best informational post. This in turn requires our best thinking. He said that generally less than 10 percent of people consider themselves a writer. Blogging gives us a chance to write on a more frequent basis.**

[|Blogging is History: Taking classroom discussions online]
**This article is about the myth that technlogy will seduce students away from reading books. The article states that using a blog as an online book group can actually enhance the book reading experience. Posting discussion questions and responding to others comments made the book come alive.**

Digital Discussion: Take your class to the internet
**This article is about the benefit of blogs in the classroom and explains the process for creating one. Deciding how you set up your blog depends on the structure of your classroom. You need to decide how you grade the work that is posted. You also need to set strict guidelines about using names, personal information, what is appropriate regarding comments and content, in order to protect the students. Finally the author suggests bringing the blog into the classroom in order to build excitement and enthusiasm.**

How to: Start a place-based blog

 * This article discusses setting guidelines for your blogging project. You need to teach and model the dos and don'ts of blogging to the students. Create seperate blogs for each student and link them together on a main classroom blog. Locate an audience for the students so they know that there work is for a purpose. Decide whether to make the blog available for private or public usage. Create a student/teacher working process in which students are able to post their work. If the blog is for the public use creative ways to generate readership.**