My sister, a teacher in a rural Minnesota high school, can't read my blog. Her school blocks them, and she doesn't have net access at home. I'm not enough of a computer guy to know how the school district does that, but I'm interested that administrators choose to put up the blocks.
People like me must be dangerous, or maybe it's the high school teachers that the administrators don't trust.
People like me must be dangerous, or maybe it's the high school teachers that the administrators don't trust.
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It's so students can't blog from school.
Amy could probably tell you all about it actually...
Yes, Peabody, you are quite that dangerous! You want students to think for themselves, to enjoy writing! How dare you :)
about what tasha said--i mean really--why would they want students to WRITE?!
oh, it is sad.
I'm not surprised...school districts are paranoid about "objectionable content." It annoys me...I've run into this kind of censorship before. I think I wrote about it in a paper for your class once...
Oh yeah. I still battle the blog issue at school. I returned from a three day field trip around six p.m. As I sat at my desk reading the sub's notes, I start clicked onto internet explorer. Proceeding to engage in my morning ritual at night, I went to hotmail to see what has built up in the last three days. While I was gone, they blocked hotmail. I can no longer check my personal email at school, therefore email period.
Why am I typing this? Schools are cracking down on what types of communication students have on their internet connections. If a student is planning, oh say a violent act while through some website on their time at school, well, I imagine that's a problem. It may be for less horrible things as well, like trying to stop distractions during the learning process.
All I know is tha I want my students to have a school email account and to be able to use the internet to communicate with professionals, because that's the direction professionals are taking. It's also a great tool for a rural school. blah blah blah. I'm still working on this issue and trying to find a way to make communicating on the internet work for my students and district.
-Aimless
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