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Originally Posted by NewChief
My students were doing research papers about chemistry-related topics (I'm an English teacher, but we were partnering with the Chemistry teachers to try to create an interdisciplinary project). I wanted my students to blog on their topic as they researched it. I noticed that every blogging platform besides wordpress (which I use and prefer anyway) was blocked, so I requested that they be unblocked so my students could meaningfully interact with bloggers on other platforms through creation of blogrolls and such. My sysadmin (this is a sysadmin of a school district serving a community of 70,000+ in a college town) tells me that blogs are the "wild wild west of the internet and there is no way I'd let students into that world." Yeah, that's what I deal with.  |
That's impressively behind the times for someone in IT.