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Sunday, July 10, 2005

 

Web Update

Bob Nedbal, Director of IT and Web Services for American Educational Research Association has updated the Rural Education SIG web site link on the main AERA site (see http://www.aera.net/).

You will also note the addition of two new links on the left-hand bar, placed there at Bob's request:

A link to the SIGs homepage
http://www.aera.net/Default.aspx?id=274

A link to press releases
http://www.aera.net/newsmedia/?id=478
He also mentioned that AERA will be adding a section called "Beyond AERA" which will include a variety of topics (added incrementally) on events, opportunities, meetings, other items of note related but outside of AERA in the very near future.

Finally, he noted "some very interesting" traffic from the AERA tag that is included at the bottom of each message (see http://technorati.com/tag/aera). For those of you that didn't know, essentially what these "tags" do is store all of the blog entries and Flickr photos that people upload on that particular subject. This allows someone interested in AERA to go to this tag and see all of the people that are blogging about AERA and what they are saying.

You will note that to date, most of the traffic has come from this blog site, but over the next few weeks I will be posting messages that discuss blogging and provide how to advice for people to get started with blogging. I would hope that from these entries, that others will start blogging and we can expand the conversation about rural education. To date, I have only been able to locate one other blog on rural education: Mr. Rural ED - Michael Arnold. As I find others, I will announce them and link them into our list (which I hope will start to grow).

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