This is the first in a series of podcasts about student blogs and, in particular, our Student Community. While the nuts and bolts of using the community are best viewed in the tutorials found here, this Tech Bytes series will focus more on tips and tricks, as well as best practices.

Episode 1 of this series explains what blogs are and why they're important in education.

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I've created some notes to go along with this episode:

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Check out: http://www.walkupsway.com/fyelearningpyramid.htmNotice that "discussion" has a 50% retention rate, only to be eclipsed by doing and teaching others. Of course, on the student blogs, chances are that the students are doing because they are posting work that they, in fact, did. And aren't they, in a sense, teaching others?