I’ve been following with fascination the shutdown of this particular blog, specifically the responses by those who have faithfully followed it, and feel it provides for us an idea of how tenuous blogging can be. What strikes me is the lack of an explanation he was given for the decison to actually shut it down. One would think he deserved an explanation, especially since he seems baffled by the decision to do so. Responses to the shutdown seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of the blog. It does illustrate how importantly we as educators have to be as overseers of an established blog; administrators are going to be diligent, and perhaps in some cases over-reactive, in their determinations as to the appropriateness of a teacher’s content and the security of the students who are participating in school-based blogs.
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