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http://www.edweek.org/sreports/tc02/article.cfm?slug=35virtual.h21

The Virtual Teaching Life
Julie Blair

Becky Huggins sometimes goes undercover in the online classes she teaches for elementary school youngsters. When discussions among her students go stale, she logs on under a pseudonym—taking on the identity of a student—and fires off a provocative question or comment to jump-start the dialogue. "I shouldn't tell you all my tricks," confides Huggins, the lead teacher for seeUonline, a public online school program based in Palmer, Alaska, and sponsored by the Matanuska-Susitna school district, "but it works."...

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