hi again, everybody - quite a few people wrote me with questions about the basics of blogging and RSS today, and instead of trying to answer those emails individually, I'm sending around a link here to a brand-new article by Will Richardson, who is an educator with wide-ranging experience in using blogs and RSS: http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan04/richardson.shtml if you are interested in reading more from Will Richardson, his blog is here: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ BTW, so far my students are thrilled to have their own blogs up and running in less than 10 minutes. throughout the day today I have received many emails from students saying they knew what blogs and RSS feeds were (sort of...) but didn't really know how to use them and were embarrassed to ask! so, I'm feeling very confident about using this extensively next year after testing it out some more over the summer. :) Laura