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I've been using one of the Blogger gadgets, the Link List, to catch links as I go from reading Richardson's text, calling them "Related Sites". When I find broken links or 404s from the text links I sometimes check for an updated link and use that instead -- it's not surprising that some of the tinyurls for student work sites would no longer function. Although some of the tinyurls failed, searching for them led me to handy online lists of links from the text, like the one from one of Karen Gallagher-Edlund's (McCaskey East HS, Lancaster PA) wikis at http://edw2010.wikispaces.com/Online+class+notes.

As Richardson talked about the many uses of Weblogs in schools,

• class portal
• online filing cabinet
• e-portfolio
• collaborative space
• knowledge management and articulation
• school Web site,

I was struck by how often we now employ other Web 2.0 tools for these functions. Tools like Edmodo and Digi[cation], as well as wikis and our official FPS websites, provide for many of these uses while offering other advantages, such as enhanced privacy or more options for collaboration.