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Blogging classroom connects to parents
8/9/2005 | 
Coverage
Emily Anthes, St. Petersburg Times
'"Some parents struggle to get their children to surrender even a scrap of information about what they did in school.
But last year, Joyce Schubert didn't even have to ask. Each day, after her fifth-grade daughter, Kayla Vance, disappeared into a Pinellas Park Elementary School classroom, Schubert would log onto the Internet for a virtual peek inside.
On the class Web site, Schubert could see her daughter's spelling grades half an hour after she had taken a test or monitor deadlines for assignments. But the highlight, Schubert said, was the daily classroom blog written by the fifth-graders.
It may take a while for teachers used to more traditional classroom methods to incorporate blogs into their lessons or feel comfortable with technology that some of their students have already mastered.
In many ways, the Internet is still the younger generation's domain. Eighty-seven percent of American teens, ages 12 through 17, use the Internet, compared to 66 percent of American adults, according to a report recently released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And 48 percent of bloggers are under the age of 30, another Pew survey found.
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