Blocking Academic Blogs

March 6 2006 Update: Will Richardson reports that the Virginia Beach City Schools are back to blogging with a compromise  Orange County California, is still blocked.

Blogging is used educationally in kindergarten (well, one in kindergarten anyway) classrooms up to high school. 

There's so much going on in using blogs as literacy tools in the k-12 area, it's hard to keep up.

But maybe it will slow down.  Why?  School districts  unilaterally blocking blogging tools, that's why.  Will Richardson first reported on Blog Pulled  and the Three-Click Rule (The culprit in the preceding case above is the Virginia Beach City Public Schools) and then on Blogspot/Blogger blogs blocked.

I got an e-mail this morning from a teacher out there who didn't want to be identified but who did suggest that there were hundreds of teachers using Blogger to communicate and collaborate with kids and students, and now they're basically blog toast.

 The culprit in the case above is the Orange County Department of Education, in California, which is the DOE that covers the latest in the "expelled for myspace" dramas.

Anne Davis's blog is a good place to start reading about blogging in k-12, if the other links above don't meet your needs.
(Liz's previous post on blogging in the classroom slammed shut)