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Teaching, then, whether in graduate schools or kindergartens - in elite universities or slum schools - binds all of us together. In teaching we display our views of knowledge and learning, we advertise our ideas, how we reason, and how we struggle with moral choices whether we intend to or not. To teach is to enlist in a technical, morally based vocation... Now change that to: Blogging, then, whether in graduate schools or kindergartens - in elite universities or slum schools - binds all of us together. In blogging we display our views of knowledge and learning, we advertise our ideas, how we reason, and how we struggle with moral choices whether we intend to or not. To blog is to enlist in a technical, morally based vocation... Edubloggers, do you see blogging as an extension of your teaching? If not, should you? On the flip side, do you see teaching as an extension of your blogging?

Student Challenges I learned how to bit by bit teach the kids how to be responsible, safe and write for the blogging world. I had thought we'd only do a class blog...no individual blogs this semester. Their writing has improved so much and they will actually come up to me and ask me to delete the first thing they wrote so they can improve it and re-post.  They begged me to let them have their own blogs and I gave in as long as they could demonstrate they could write well and knew the internet safety rules.  About 25% of my students earned my trust that they could handle the responsibilty of their own blog...and many have become their own blog

PRIDE IN THEIR WORK. For many of our students, their world view is changing as a result of posting in public spaces. Many of them have embedded clustr maps into their sidebars, and they can see where people are visiting from. Recently, one of our students posted about the effect this global audience has had on her: "Okay- so is this is amazing. I've used this blog since March 30th and so far it's been a great resource and an amazing display of some of my work this year. It hasn't just been my teachers, my classmates, my family and I that have looked at it - as of August 6 my blog has had 533 visits worldwide. Amazing or what? WOW."

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