Leading Educational and Blog Search Companies Launch Safe Blogging Tool for Schools "Schools demand a safe, collaborative environment for their communication and Web browsing needs," said Tim DiScipio, chairman and co-founder of ePALS Classroom Exchange. "The combination of ePALS's large global classroom community and collaboration technologies and PubSub's unique prospective search capabilities allow us to bring safe, secure blogging to teachers, students, and schools worldwide for international cross-cultural collaboration and project sharing. More than 80,000 new blogs are created every day; for education to ignore this phenomenon would be to risk putting our kids behind the technological times. Blogs enable deeper, richer interaction among community members and encourage students to explore, express, and collaborate."
There are so many positives for students in this project...writing, thinking, global communications, collaboration. I do hope that there is fun in there somewhere...students who enjoy blogging at earlier ages will be the ones more likely to view it as a tool for other ideas, news, and commentary. It is perhaps an attitudinal change, a paradigm shift from: "Junior, go do your blog!" to something like, "Have you hugged your ePal today?"