Hi everyone, If 7 year olds can do it, then blogging can't be too difficult for me to learn: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3804773.stm Besides being rather simple to use, this article makes several pedagogical points about weblogs, including: 1. Increased student interest 2. Increased student success (duh; this follows from #1, right?) 3. Involvement of outside community 4. More "inspired" writing than in Word 5. Allows students to speak "with own voice" 6. Allows students to interact with each other to create a virtual community 7. "Not like pinning an essay on a classroom wall." Choice quote on #3 and #6: "Rather than using a weblog as a platform for an individual voice, you can use it for a collaboration of many voices. A class of students doing a project on the environment might want to start a weblog about their local river; because it's online, it might attract interest from local residents and policy-makers too. The local community can be drawn in on something that, without the weblog, would have been isolated within the school." Oh yes, one more thing: I found this article through a blog... http://librarystories.blogspot.com/ PEACE Kerry