“It allowed them to interact with their peers more quickly than a journal,” she said, “and it evened the playing field.” Mrs. Dudiak said she found that those who were quiet in class usually came alive online. (Update: NYTimes Online has since ‘corrected’ their headline to ‘web logs’.)

Classroom Web logs, or blogs, many of which got their start in the last school year, are becoming increasingly popular with teachers like Mrs. Dudiak as a forum for expression for students as young as the second-grade level and in almost any subject. In the blogs, students write about how they attacked a tough math problem, post observations about their science experiments or display their latest art projects.

found via Collin vs. Blog – “The NYT Style Guide for New Technologies” – also see New York Times Features K-12 Ed Blogging