Doing research right now to develop a simple blogging project as an afterschool project for grades 3-5. There is an interesting conversation going on in the nonprofit technology community about the benefits and barriers to blogging in the nonprofit organization setting. Here's a snippet of the parrall conversation in the educational tech world from Mark Wagner's "Educational Technology and Life" blog. This particular post even includes a podcast!
Blogging for Teachers - Part 1
Blogging for Teachers - Part 2
Digging deeper into links and material in this post, there is a link to a mattrix by Scott Leslie on blogs use in formal education.
Beth,
Thanks for the link. How is the project coming. Lately I have begun training teachers in using blogs in their classes, and I am always looking for good examples to show them. Did you wind up launching the afterschool program?
-Mark
Posted by: Mark Wagner | April 10, 2005 at 01:45 PM