I’m glad you addressed this topic. I had actually been wondering if all of us would get out into the real world with big plans for blogging and have the schools reply with a resounding no on the topic. Nooooo you can’t use the internet like that! It’s a wonder school computer labs have computers at all.

I used to love paper journals in grade school. I could usually write whatever I wanted, and I could even fold over the page if I wrote something private. In high school, I hated journaling, because it wasn’t journaling. It was mini-essays. Ew. What’s wrong with open-ended journaling, hmmm? Put it on the internet, and bam, you have peer review and everything. I don’t know about you, but that’s my favorite part of my own online social blog- responses from my friends.