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Money alone is not enough to improve a country's education system. But without adequate funding for school buildings, technical equipment, teaching materials and teacher training, education reform is doomed to failure from the very outset. The Peruvian Government is well aware of this: for its planned reform of the education system, it has put a new distribution key for budgetary funds at the top of the agenda.

While blogging has many benefits, there are some potential challenges and barriers that come with using this tool with students. It is important that teachers fully understand these before beginning to blog with their students.

BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION:

Did you know Spelling City offers more than just spelling practice? There's vocabulary and writing, too. Check us out http://bit.ly/c3xqWy

Read about Edmodo and watch a video here.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: This call encourages all educators, both experienced and novice with respect to Web 2.0 learning tools, to submit proposals to present at this conference via this link. Take this opportunity to share your successes, strategies, and tips in "amplifying the possibilities" of web 2.0 powered learning in one of the four conference strands.

While most districts are still tackling Web-based collaboration tools from pedagogical and security perspectives, a large number of teachers are already out there using these tools to supplement instruction, engage learners, and encourage their students to become producers of information, as well as consumers of it. In other words, they're experimenting. And here are some of the free tools they're using to do it.

Blogger Suzie Boss spots trends at the ISTE conference this year.

Our Edutopia Community Manager Betty Ray reports back from EduBloggerCon at the ISTE 2011 conference.  Her report summarizes several emerging ideas connecting education and technology