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Excellent blog post about how to deal with comments for articles submitted to peer reviewed journals. Tucking this away for the day when we start writing these things.

Social Networking Goes to School. This blog article is about research on how schools and parents are working togehter, or not). Uses of social network sites like twitter and fb are described - just skimmed but found of interest. (In Denmark, a trend of school intranet has grown for the last few years , still with a very closed and one-way mostly view). Sus

Excellent article that provides Effective Strategies for the Stages of Learning/Adoption

Interesting website -- details seem elusive, though. This particular page mentions an author "Chris Dede" who I think is the same author Brenda sent me an article by that she found very useful.

SpringerLink - Journal Article. Costs $34.00

paid article

Hey Barb, It's on the way!!

Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom, blended, and fully online higher education learning environments. Evidence is provided to suggest that blended courses produce a stronger sense of community among students than either traditional or fully online courses.