I spoke with Bud Wampler recently from AAA of Southern California and he told me more about the essay contest. The couple of high school students that did enter this year sent in videos and included one about teens and DUI that Bud considered "...quite powerful." He said that community members serve as judges and winning entries at the local level are sent on to the national competition. The grand prizes include scholarships of $5,000. I hope that soon a web log would be considered in the written communication category.
A new web log, teachandlearn, talks about having students do more than just access resources:
What I would like to see more of, however, is interaction with the digital documents produced as a result of completing a given task - the digital trail or the social life of a document that emerged in the process of formulating ideas.
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