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How to Join:

Pretty simple. Click the Join Now link in the left nav bar. Please, say yes to receiving bulletins. It'll make communication easier. You can always decline later. Once you're a member, you have to Log in and then you can use the Discuss link. I need your address to change you to Editor status, so send me an e-mail saying you've joined. Once you're an Editor, you can post newsItems. 

How it might work - There vs. Here:

Emphasis on might. We keep it simple. Below is a sample headline and brief descriptor that which might appear as a newsItem on the main page. You click the 'headline' and it takes you to a story on my weblog where I was thinking through some design issues.

Some thoughts on k12bW design
    Take a peek at where we're going.

A reader really interested in the content of that message might join the discussion there (if you're a member of that site), even reading this further thinking about the design. Which would keep the newsItem posting on this k12bW site very short.

What's the point of  here? A relatively small group of teachers submit practioner items to a single site. Non-virtual school hallway analogy:

1. Karen's walking down to the copy room and glances in Albert's classroom. He's teaching a 3rd. grade class how to do blogChat interviews with I-Search contacts. Hmm - pretty interesting. Might work with the oral interview project that she's starting. She detours into Albert's room for a visit.
2. I can't figure out how to get my blog's Discussion Group messages to show up in topics format. I leave a note on my door, saying, "Halp!" Karen walks by after her Albert visit, reads the note, and leaves a quick reply, telling me to click the first radio button under Prefs / Discussion.
3. Will has a sign on his door announcing, "Portfolio Presentations in Progress." Karen goes into his classroom. A 12th. grader is talking about an article entitled 'Boys in Skirts.' She checks with Will and arranges with the student for a visit to her 8th. graders.

k-12 blogWrite is really just the hallway, an informal commons. Doors are left open a crack if folks feel like it, an invitation for visits. Doors can stay closed too. (We've all had those days - sign in, grab the mail, hide in your room, go home.) Occasionally a couple of folks will talk for a while in the hallway, but usually away from other people's doors. If it gets really good, teachers generally move into a room/blog of their own, leaving the door open a crack.

The Discuss link under this newsItem connects to a very simple board, "off of the hallway."  Btw, I'd rather be using the Blue Comet theme, but someone who likes html will have to figure out how to tweak it for a clean board.