http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/blog-banning-update/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/blog-banning-update/comment-page-1/#comment-2778 Marco Polo Thu, 11 May 2006 10:45:13 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/blog-banning-update/#comment-2778 If you can't beat them ... don't try! Wouldn't it be easier to just circumvent the school altogether, have students blogging from outside the school? And one has to wonder, who benefits from such a byzantine system that fosters blanket rules like these? If you can’t beat them … don’t try! Wouldn’t it be easier to just circumvent the school altogether, have students blogging from outside the school? And one has to wonder, who benefits from such a byzantine system that fosters blanket rules like these?

]]> http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/blog-banning-update/comment-page-1/#comment-2765 David Jakes Thu, 11 May 2006 00:25:47 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/blog-banning-update/#comment-2765 I agree with you completely regarding the blocking of potentially worthwhile sites. We, meaning education, need much better policies for the blocking and unblocking of Web sites. We simply can't accept blindly what our filtering software dictates-it's just not that simple. And I think that many of the school districts that I have worked with are missing an effective policy that enable teachers and/or administrators to request the evaluation of a blocked Web site, and the subsequent unblocking of the site. For the record, all four of the sites mentioned in your post are available to the students in my district (District 99, Downers Grove, IL). I agree with you completely regarding the blocking of potentially worthwhile sites. We, meaning education, need much better policies for the blocking and unblocking of Web sites. We simply can’t accept blindly what our filtering software dictates-it’s just not that simple. And I think that many of the school districts that I have worked with are missing an effective policy that enable teachers and/or administrators to request the evaluation of a blocked Web site, and the subsequent unblocking of the site. For the record, all four of the sites mentioned in your post are available to the students in my district (District 99, Downers Grove, IL).

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