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but, otherwise I'd never try anything new :-) 

http://wjpsartfall2007.blogspot.com/ 

Another would be to create our own Wiki, and populate it with information that the kids would find useful in school. I got the idea from a 10th grade personal project that a student of mine did last year, a "survival guide" for our school. The kids would populate this wiki with information that other students, especially the younger ones, would find useful. This would become the basis of a "User Guide to BSGE", which will provide advice, coping strategies, and resources the students can use, updated with new information as the students gain experience.

BTW, feel free to "steal" either of these ideas, if in fact they are original, and not accidentally stolen by me because i didn't remember where they came from. 

The 11/12th grade class is starting out with digital audio, creating introductions and now initial 5 minute radio shows to share with other teens. We are planning to join the youthbridges community and then expand into some digital image editing. They are exploring the ways that storytelling and day to day communication changes because of the uses of new technologies.

This is also a running thread in 9th grade Computer Arts. So far they have made Voice Threads about connecting place and story and have told about what it has been like to become a high schooler in our neighborhood, connecting either new places or familiar places with the stories of the last month's adventures in their lives. They are now setting up profiles in Youth Voices and sharing stories with students in Alaska. They will soon move on to do online research with a partner this year, not solo at first.

10th Grade Drawing will hopefully be blogging about the art experience with art students in Maine and possibly Binghamton, New York for the purpose of exploring whether people in different places have different or similar ideas about something as abstract as "art." They might also expand the wiki gallery.

 I would like to spend some time on Thursdays searching for interesting examples of similar work being done around the world. So often we take note of an interesting project but we never really take the time to look at it and explore it. I would also be interested in looking at specific ways that technology can support the writing process in Writing Centers since our Writing Center has grown to be very active this year.