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I'm trying to set up classroom blogs for our 1st grade teachers. I've looked at several options and I think using blogspot may be the best way to go. What I understand is the the teacher can create a blog- ie mrs smiths class blog. Then using the teacher's gmail we can create an individual blog for each student. Now this is where o get confuddled! Do we just link the student blogs from the teache…