ABSTRACT
In this chapter, people discuss new ways to generate discussion with their students inside and outside of class and to communicate more effectively with the world outside their classroom walls. They can foster communication amongst their students and with the outside world from class, from the lab, from the library, and from home. Electronic mail is a popular and easy-to-use communication medium that teachers can adopt for a number of classroom purposes. At their school they have a centralized system where administrative control of blogs rests in the hands of two Information Technology department members. They create all blogs, train all teachers, and makes fundamental design, content, and acceptable-use policy decision. English classes might receive updates on teaching literature from favorite Web sites or collect new poems from poetry blogs. After blogging for several weeks in one class, students began asking if they could cite each other's ideas and language in their own papers.
