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Now that I got past the design issues, I reflected on blogging itself. I find that the most challenging part of blogging is keeping up with it. I have set up several in the past and the students are all gung ho at first but then they move on to different things and the responses trickle down. I guess in the elementary school world this is more realistic than say an ongoing commercial blog. I have noticed though that often it happens there also. People get busy and don't always have time to keep updating the posts. Short term - such as this class, they can be very useful.

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  1. pollyalidaJanuary 1, 2018 at 5:59 PM

    Good point, blogs are really great for short term projects like this. And as you said, for longer term projects, it depends on the person.

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