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April 19, 2006
Professional Discourse? What's That?
My post yesterday about school districts blocking access to edtech blogs struck a chord with Texas librarian Lisa Rose of B.F. Terry High School. Her district, Lamar CISD, is one of the districts filtering out the edtech blogs. She received a copy of the blog entry via email, since she's unable to access it from school. Lisa writes:
I wish we could have access to any blog sites...every one I try to access at school is blocked by our filter, citing web page hosting as the reason, among other things. You mention professional discourse... what's that? I'm surprised I'm allowed to get email from the listservs. I practically have to beg the technology dept. to open sites for me and most of the time they won't. We are at the mercy of people who sometimes aren't educators and our opinions as to what is educational counts for nothing. The noneducator technology person looks at the blocked website and denies access based on their knowledge of what we need in the classroom or library. It seems a little backward to me but I'm just a librarian and have no say in the matter.When giving me permission to post her message, Lisa said I could post it using her real name, since "obviously no one at school could access it anyway," as my blog is being blocked along with the others. -andy
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