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"The Around the World with 80 Schools project has grown tremendously over the last year. It has grown so fast that it was becoming very time consuming to manually enter contact information for a group email list, invited participants manually to a wiki, add their location on a Google Map, and maintain a Google form/spreadsheet with the participants' contact information. I knew that it was time to move to another platform that would make connecting and creating a networked community easier and automated. With that goal in mind, I immediately turned to a creating a Ning."

"Blogging is about reading and about writing in digital spaces. We want students to make their learning and thinking visible. We are developing a platform and a blogging pedagogy for students to document, reflect, organize, manage their online learning records and using student work on blogs as a source for formative assessment. Timely feedback from their teachers, peers and a global audience is critical to the process."