Educational Blogging

Blogging is meant  to allow a person to learn and then to respond to information.  What do many people do when they need information about a topic, they will go to their search engine of choice and ask the question.  In doing this, many circumstances lead to looking up other information.  Does this always happen in a classroom environment with blogging--not exactly.    Some reasons this does not happen in the context of "blogging" that was mentioned in the article, I feel are that there are so many limits and restrictions that occur in many school districts.  Students are permitted to go only certain sites, research certain information and other information is filtered.  This puts many limits on searching one topic that leads to visiting many other sites.  I think there were some great points made in the article, but I do not feel that "Blogging" is being used properly in many classrooms, I think school districts are getting there, but it is going to take practice and time for students and teachers alike to learn how to "weave" through the Internet and make valuable use of what is available today.