The Washington Post inadvertently answered one of my questions yesterday, defining "aggregator" as "a Web site that collects individual entries from...blogs in one place." ("Blogs, Sidestep Classroom Constraints," April 4, 2006, p. A8) Well, yes, then I see that that is exactly what is happening here when I add a post to my new blog and it appears on the main page of webheadsinaction.org. Maybe I could have figured that out for myself, but I didn't.

In a related article, "Web Journals Both a Help and a Hindrance," Jessica Miller, a TA in a class called "Cyberporn & Society" at SUNY-Buffalo, is cited as feeling that the internet "doesn't allow for emotional undertones", which may lead teachers to misunderstand what students write. I'd think that would be true of anything students write, be it on paper or on a blog. Good writing is obviously able to communicate depth of emotion. Our students, however, who are not good writers, at least not in English, would have difficulty expressing emotional undertones in any medium (including speech, where teachers from other cultures may not pick up on what a student is going through despite the best of inetnions).