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Student Science Blogging, Part II

By clock on September 14, 2007.

A few days ago I wrote about the Zoo School in Asheboro, NC. It is even better than I thought - I got in touch with their lead teacher and she told me that all of their students have laptops in the classroom with wireless access. Their classrooms also have Smartboards and other cool technology. And they are very interested in their students utilizing the Web in a variety of ways, including blogging.

And obviously, some of them already are, as one of the students discovered the post on her own and posted this comment that I want to promote to the front page:

I am a Senior at the North Carolina Zoo School and it is a wonderful experience. You get to work with some of the latest technology, work on projects by yourself, and also work on research papers that will take you inside the Zoo. I would recommend the Zoo School to everyone who lives near one of the four Zoo Schools in the U.S. -Anne Mayberry

I invited the teachers and students to the Science Blogging Conference - Asheboro is barely an hour away from RTP. There, they can schmooze with other students, scientists, science blogging stars, publishers, science teachers, science writers and journalists and participate in all the sessions, including the two education-focused sessions, the first about using the Web in teaching led by David Warlick, a nationally recognized expert on the use of online technologies in teaching, and the other one on 'Student Blogging: K to PhD', moderated by a group of undergraduate and graduate students, but we certainly hope that the students from K-12 will also participate in the discussion.

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What wonderful news! It'll be good to have them at the conference. The school reminds me a bit of a "magnet" high school that started up when I was in high school. Years later, I wish I had made the switch to the high-tech school rather than sticking it out in the regular high school, but what's done is done. Still, it looks like the education-oriented sessions are really starting to take shape and I'm really looking forward to it.