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I am trying to find out if people are using blogs in education and if they are working. Lots of suggestions that it is a good idea but most then seem to say, students didn't use them. I am at the beginning and just planning. I work in Further education with 1st Diploma students and will make the blog part of assessment next year in the Key skills / Functioning skills program. This year we put one unit of work onto power point and I don't see why we can't just move this to a blog next year. We have also uploaded all our animation films to Youtube, but under my name.