After reading this I realized that my statement “For the rest, blogs are a new adventure. Wikis, CMS portals, RSS & podcasts are relatively unknown to all.” is incomplete on my part. The students are actually using all of those CMS (except podcasts) – almost daily – but they are not aware of them in regard to what they are and how they work as software. That was my point. They are also reading blogs, but do not realize that they are blogs.

Also, my observation about K-12 being far ahead of higher education in the adoption of blogs is based upon my anecdotal observations of that large online community. Certainly there are many higher ed efforts, but my observation is that K-12 out numbers those efforts, by far.

Thank you. All the best with your blog. It is a very unique and creative topic for a blog and a great resource.

Take care.

Robert