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On October 17, 2006, thousands of people in Britain contributed diary entries to what the BBC called “Britain’s biggest blog.”

Sponsored by the National Trust, it was an effort to capture a snapshot of ordinary life in the British Isles at the beginning of the 21st Century.

Historian Dan Snow said about the project, “What we want this to be is a detailed account of people’s normal lives when…

In a series of blog posts, I've been trying to find my way from Web 2.0 to School 2.0/Classroom 2.0. A corner of my head believes firmly that there's a graceful, arching bridge between pedagogy and technology.

In my latest effort, I rethought a piece of Humanities curriculum I taught and how it could be more Classroom 2.0. Just to have a starting point, I assumed that Classroom 2.0 has the following characteristics:

The curriculum is often digital, contains multimedia, and…