Chapter 2 (Richardson)

In chapter 2, Richardson discusses how he created a portal for his students and it received a great response from students, faculty, and parents. However, my first thought is what about children who do not have internet access at home? How do we address this issue? While this is an outstanding tool in collaboratively working with parents and students, we must recognize that we put some students at a disadvantage and could alienate them fromt the classroom environment.

In a k-12 setting can we require blogging after school? If so, do we need to educate students about "internet cafe's" or public libraries so that they can access the internet to complete assignments?

When I was student teaching at Ballard I had students work on computers a great deal to carry out research, but at the same time it was very difficult to get the students access to computers on a regular basis while at school, because of students working on portfolio's or lack of lab availability. So a regular blogging assignment could be very difficult to carry out.

I do like the E-portfolio idea and I think for an English class this would be outstanding. It would make it easier for students to complete their portfolio for their senior year, but like the blogging can we be sure that the necessary resources are going to be available?