Northrop High School does block a variety of websites. Networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are blocked and cannot be accessed by students or teachers. When it comes to blogs I am not sure if blogging sites are blocked. I would assume that some may be and some are not based on content, but I am not certain.
I am excited about using my blog site in my classroom. Hopefully it is not blocked, and I think it would provide a great medium for classroom discussion. While teaching US History this coming semester, I could see me assigning blogs as homework, as discussion starters, as hooks for beginning new units/topics, and as an arena for student debates and student-student critiques. In a course in college, blog posts were required on a variety of topics and the instructor brought the assigned blogs into the classroom via projector and the homework was discussed that way. It made each person in the class want to complete their homework. This situation would be ideal in the high school setting, as long as all students have access to the internet....
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