re: Blogger's Rights for Students

Brian Scarbeau — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:51:35 GMT

It's very difficult to control what students will write about and more importantly how others will perceive their writing.
Even the school newspaper is checked for content by administration at most schools and for them to check a students blog each time they want to write would be difficult.
However, a school intranet could be used to control content.
Many teenagers are using sites like myspace.com to blog on daily basis with their friends and have fun saying what they want to say without school control.

re: Blogger's Rights for Students

David Jacobus — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:27:27 GMT

Alfred, Right on Target. My Computer Science class wants me to put a blogging engine for them. I am thinking about doing this with the caveat that they will be responsible for their input. However, I have some hesitation because students will be students! I have a web service that can parse the textbox input for inappropriate words but not the intent. I have DotNetNuke Website almost ready to use as a basis and they have a blogging engine that works with dotnet 2.0. The high school guy is responsible for all this blogging activity at my site as he imbued me into blogging and now my students want some of the action! Maybe, we can cross-pollinate a computer science with a language arts class for double the credit! (ha, ha)