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Caroline Eisner: "Community is one of the most important reasons that BreadNet works"
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Michael Armstrong: “just to keep in touch with what Is going on” (logging in) “online…the ability to pursue your own ideas in conversation with someone else” “I find there that it is almost as if you are writing to a virtual community …to those that respond” “a community of listeners” “where stories can be told in an unthreatening manner” “stories embedded in a community of listeners” “BLTN is an opportunity to be close together even though they are separate” “there is a freedom of exchange online” “exchange was very valuable” “nature of correspondence is much more egalitarian, much more of a conversation” "There is a freedom of exchange online...almost as if you are writing to a virtual community...a community of listeners"

Information found by Kim The Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN) is a network of teachers educated at Bread Loaf and supported during the academic year by Bread Loaf staff and faculty.

These teachers' year-round activities are supported by BreadNet, our telecommunications network

Bread Loaf teachers are trained in the use of BreadNet during the summer session, and then they and their students, sometimes joined by Bread Loaf

Members, carry out cross-classroom, content-rich online writing projects on literature, place-based, and other subjects during the academic year.

Students benefit enormously from this widening of the classroom, and teachers report dramatic improvement in students' writing when they are writing for an "authentic audience" of their peers at another school.

There are now hundreds of teachers actively engaged in networked projects involving tens of thousands of their students.

I obtained this information from the Bread Loaf web page. Maybe some of it works.


 * The Bread Loaf Teacher Network** (BLTN) is a network of teachers educated at Bread Loaf and supported during the academic year by Bread Loaf staff and faculty. Most, but not all, members of BLTN have been recipients special fellowships that fund their summer graduate study at Bread Loaf and then support their networked activities during the school year.

These teachers' year-round activities are supported by [|BreadNet,] our telecommunications network, in existence since 1984, and one of the first and most successful electronic teacher networks in the nation. Bread Loaf teachers are trained in the use of BreadNet during the summer session, and then they and their students, sometimes joined by Bread Loaf faculty members, carry out cross-classroom, content-rich online writing projects on literature, place-based, and other subjects during the academic year. Students benefit enormously from this widening of the classroom, and teachers report dramatic improvement in students' writing when they are writing for an "authentic audience" of their peers at another school, or engaging in a literary discussion with a college professor.

Bread Loaf faculty and staff are available throughout the year, both online and in person, to offer technical and academic advice. The Bread Loaf publications director works with teachers who are interested in writing about their work, and Bread Loaf publishes the //Bread Loaf Teacher Network Magazine//.

This network of teachers from rural, urban, and suburban schools began with funding from the Wallace Foundations (then the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund) in 1993. We have since received additional funding from the Annenberg Rural Challenge, the Carnegie Corporation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Educational Foundation of American, the Humana Foundation, the C.E. and S. Foundation, the Braitmayer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Educational Testing Service, the Leopold Schepp Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and several state departments of education and school districts.

There are now hundreds of teachers actively engaged in networked projects involving tens of thousands of their students.

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