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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,"

CAI (computer-assisted instruction) approach to education which was strictly content-based and driven by behavioral objectives.

Fifteen minutes per day on a machine should suffice for each of these programs, the machines being free for other students for the rest of each day. (It is probably because traditional methods are so inefficient that we have been led to suppose that education requires such a prodigious part of a young person's day).