Mr. Blount's Classroom Goes Online

Since school started this year I have been attempting to find an electronic communication medium to suit the needs of my classroom. At first, I thought I would be able to start a class blog similar to my three personal blogs. It would be relatively simple to update the site regularly from school. Unfortunately, “personal networking sites” are blocked on school computers. So, I attempted to get special approval to unblock either a specific hosting address or my classroom computer. Categorically denied! Then, I tried to become a blogger on Scholastic.com, but alas they had already selected their five teachers for this year. My next attempt was to create a homeroom page on Scholastic.com, but the miniscule limits on uploads shot that down. I don’t really care for the format and features of the Tomlin Middle School official site, so I went back to square one and decided to initiate a class web site at blogger.com and run it from home. It will require more work for me, but hopefully I won’t run into anymore roadblocks, and we can get this thing up and running.