A new class of education-specific weblogs is providing teachers and students new opportunities to share ideas with each other and with audiences that may be oceans or continents apart. Says one third grade teacher in the Seattle Times article, “Never in 25 years of teaching have I seen a more powerful motivator for writing than blogs. . . . And that’s because of the audience. Writing is not just taped on the refrigerator and then put in the recycle bin. It’s out there for the world to see. Kids realize other people are reading what they write.”

One of these days, school districts will understand the power of blogs and stop blindly censoring them.