I have been so frustrated lately to be continually blocked from access to valid educational resources online due to restrictions put in place by my school’s ISP.  In particular, it has been frustrating to be blocked from anything vaguely resembling a social networking site, which is restricting me from so many resources and opportunities to network with my fellow edubloggers.  The entire Ning domain is blocked as a dating site, despite the many education sites on Ning (never mind the fact that I would like to build a Ning conmmunity for my students), and this morning I discovered that Twitter has been blocked as well, which was the only remaining site that I was able to access during work hours to network with fellow educators around the world.

It frustrates me to have these decision made for my be technical staff who are not educators, and who make extremely shallow judgements on what is and is not appropriate for education use. 

Hopefully, we will be changing ISP next year, which may allow for separate filters to be used for students and teachers – hopefully it will give me some measure of control of what I choose to use as an educational resource in my own classroom.