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Looking at blogging in education:

First: Congratulations! http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/ for WORD PRESS educational blogger Joyce Valenza, a librarian who keeps “Never Ending Search” 

http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

http://incsub.org/blog/2005/blogs-anywhere-high-fidelity-online-communication

http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/knowledgetree/edition04/pdf/Blogging_to_Learn.pdf

Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Pulling the Plug on the Electronic Revolution,, a collection of essays edited by Bill  Henderson extols “the pencil’s unique virtues [as] both utilitarian and philosophical.”
 ”You can take it into the bathtub if you want to. . .the pencil is a spiritual instrument. Buddhist even. . . Mostly, the pencil represents a backlash against our speed-obsessed culture . . . The pencil’s unique virtues are both utilitarian and philosophical, he says.

from The Toronto Start, December 26, 2005.
Read about the Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club:

The computer is extending human capacities to remember, to perceive, to think. It neither displaces these powers nor obviates our needs for them. Through technology, humanity augments itself, and humans are as responsible for their conduct with their powers augmented as they were without. As we extend our intellectual faculties with the computer, what human use of human beings should we fashion with them, particularly as educators?

from: Robbie McClintock: Power and Pedagogy: Transforming Education through Information Technology