With a few clicks of a mouse, Pleasants can navigate the Web site for Goochland County’s Byrd Elementary School and access the Web log kept by her daughter’s third-grade teacher, Ellen Robinson.

As all Goochland teachers have been required to do this year, Robinson keeps a school district-sponsored Web log, or blog — a kind of diary of her class’s activities. —Lea Setegn —Reading, writing and blogging: Goochland teachers show off students’ work, share learning tools on Web logs (Times Dispatch)

Part of a bouquet of blogging-related news items on Steven D. Krause‘s site.