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June 28, 2005

Live from NECC

BoardBuzz is reporting live from the National Education Computing Conference in Philadelphia this week. One hot topic, not surprisingly, is weblogs. One presenter here is Michael Lackner, whose terrific website about blogging in education is here. That site wrestles with all sorts of blogging-related issues, including: What is the real difference between blogs and message boards? It turns out that message boards are 25 years old this year. Lackner links to another blogger who does a great job of exploring this issue here.

Also: Here is a terrific literacy building project using blogs, in Chicago Public Schools, presented by these two, who definitely know their stuff. Here is the site from one elementary school in the project. The presentation today by Susim Munshi and Susan Switzer explored numerous core benefits to blogs in education, including one that intrigued: They make teaching and learning more public. There are concerns with that, of course, but also plenty of potential for benefit and community building. Check out their site.

Techie leaders are also gearing up for NSBA's T+L2 Conference later this year in Denver. Check out the early registration incentives here.

Posted June 28, 2005 12:00 AM