After discovering changes in filtering policies that prevented my class from doing any work on their blogs or portfolios, I had a wonderful surprise. I spoke to our IT people who passed the word to the superintendent and the local service center. Within a few hours the man who manages the filtering software was working to create some policy exceptions for my students. Apparently, creating exceptions is not quite as simple as it may seem. It has taken quite a bit of communication and several trys to complete the unblocking process. I am confident that we will complete it today.
While it is frustrating to go through all of this, I count it as growing pains. It takes teachers requesting full functionality of their resources to get the message to the policy makers. I am very pleased to see the administrators and policy makers being so cooperative and supportive!
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