I believe that blogs should not be blocked by school web filters as they are in many of the schools in Pennsylvania. Blogs are valuable classroom tools for collaboration when implemented properly through the facilitation by teachers who have received adequate training.
For students, they provide an outlet for discussion which many of them do not feel comfortable doing in class. So please, contact your school administrators about the benefits of blogging or better yet, have them attend a session on blogging in education at one of the many technology conferences held every year.
Hear! Hear! Sing it loud, sing it long. We can't afford for our schools to be running scared. Too much is at stake.
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