I think that using blogs in the classroom setting is a good idea, but I agree more with the article posted in March.  There are so many ways that the funds for new technology can be utilized.  Technology, at this point, has not proved to have improved the intellectual state of our children.  For instance,  I think the funds that would be allocated for new technology could be used to pay additional teachers' salaries after we make public school classroom sizes smaller in order to better accomodate the academic needs of our children by giving them more one on one - direct instruction.