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I have chosen blogs as my tool to research. Blogs are easy to create and to use, making them extremely user friendly with little direct instruction needed. I hope to use blogs as a means of an online math journal for my students. I would ask them to use a variation on a 3-2-1 where they listed what they understood, what they are okay with, and what they need help with. I would be able to comment on their posts and would have a requirement that the students would also have to comment on each other's posts. Between the posts and the comments, I would be able to cater my instruction to better fit the needs of each class.
 * Research Project Rationale**

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