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=**Classroom Blogs and Podcasts**= Explore the resources below to find an example that you think captures the potential of using either blogs or podcasts for learning. Be prepared to describe a short-term project you currently teach that might work well as a project-based blog or a series of podcasts.

> The Horizon Report 2008 was released last week by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative. > The report focuses on the six key technology areas that the researchers identified as likely to have a major impact on "the choices of learning-focused organizations within the next five years." > Read a quick summary at http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21972 or download the full Horizon Report at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf
 * **Classroom Content-Area Blogs** - Click on Archives on the right margin to view the posts
 * [|Scribe’s Post Hall of Fame] (A Math Blog lists the award winners in a wiki, but you can also visit the Applied Math, Calculus, and Pre-Calculus Blogs for all the postings) – Click on Archives on the right margin to view the posts
 * [|Sargent Park Math Zone] (Grade 8) and [|background] for the Scribe Site
 * English: [|Student Newspaper Blog of Pepplebrook High School]
 * [|Room 613 Student Blogs] for 6th Grade social studies students
 * [|Applied Science Research Blog]
 * [|Room Twelve (Grade 3) Student Blogs]
 * [|Grandview Library Blog] to support the school curriculum
 * **School Podcasts**
 * [|Radio Willow Web] (Radio for Kids, By Kids)
 * [|Mabry Online Podcasts] (Content Area Learning Podcasts)
 * [|Long Elementary Podcasts] (Responses to Literature by Elementary Students)
 * [|Our City Podcast]: Students from around the globe promote their cities
 * Additional Readings: [|Learning Spaces for Blogs from Annette Lamb]
 * Here's another article about technology impacting education and learning spaces - (Jodi)

What's your question?
===Please take a moment to share some of your thoughts, observations, and questions you would like to pursue! Also, feel free to respond to each others thoughts as well! Don't forget to put your first name(s) at the end or beginning of your entry.===

Does it matter how we approach online reading to either special education students and regular ed. children? If the disability is present, will online reading make it easier for the special ed. children? Are the strategies they use when reading non-fiction, taking notes, are the same when reading on line? Will they copy and paste when trying to summarize an article? Will their study habits be different when they read online material? (Zulmira?)