Unleashing Potential with Emerging Technologies by Kajder

 "Podcasts and blogs are providing a way for students to read in a voluntary and generative way, the same as adults do.

 "the thing is my reading and writing doesn't happen in here. Anywhere I'd really want to write is blocked, or the stuff teachers ask us to do is so much the same thing again and again that it isn't really writing"

A good blog- 3 principles of effective online pedagogy - you have to have presence, students have to do most of the work, interactivity. (Bill Pals journal of asynchronous learning. Vol 14 issue 1)

 A blog can give quiet students a voice that they wouldn't have in class. Also mentioned in voice thread.

 Side discussion on giving a speech, talking aloud in class- is this another place where 'online' can facilitate greater confidence? We all agreed with the writer of the article that the given technology classroom, was in actuality not a savvy technological environment.