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Here are a few blogging links: Please ask your students to hashtag tweets @ their blogs with: #cloudwriting

When students turn in writing to their teacher, they often don't care if it's good - as long as it's good enough. But when they publish their work online, they want it to be good. Knowing that someone else besides a parent, guardian or teacher cares about their work and will be reading it has a profound impact on the quality of work that they produce. Often, students are more interested in knowing what their peers think about their work than what their teacher thinks.

By combining engaging online instruction resources and solid offline learning experiences, educators can transform their classroom and put the old column-and-rows setting to shame! Because of this notion, blended learning environments provide today's students a distinct advantage.

If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the role of this institution?