In my need to find websites that will help me develop an effective classroom blog, I came across supportblogging.com.  This site is a wiki that provides a venue for everyone to promote the virtues of educational blogging.  There is a list of bloggers from all over the world and a link to their websites.  I have a feeling that this will be a great help as I develop my blog.

During the summer, I decided to start working on a couple of tools that I could use in the upcoming school year.  I knew the Department of Education (DOE) uses Websense to filter out sites they feel are not appropriate or use up too much bandwidth.  However, I never thought they would filter out sites like Wikispaces, since they devote a lot of their content to teachers and education.  Well, I was wrong!

After spending hours developing my first wiki–I couldn’t use it.  I had to go into school to do something and decided to see how the site would look using my computer.  It was blocked.  So then I had to reload the site onto Google Sites.  Hopefully, whoever the powers be,  does not block this or any other site that I am working on.

Lesson Learned:  Do not spend hours at home working on something unless you know it will pass through the DOE’s internet filter.