Bloomington, Illinois – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – March 31, 2006 – A new safe blogging solution for school students has been launched by Gaggle.Net, a provider of safestudent email to school districts across the country.

According to the company, Gaggle Blogs will serve as a safe blogging solution tohelp protect students from the dangers associated with typical blogging sites. Teachers may decide if access to the student blogs arerestricted to just within the school or district, or opened to the outsideworld. They can password protect blogs, restrict who can comment on theblogs, hide full names and email addresses, prevent pictures and more. Infact, teachers can decide if all blog entries and comments must be approvedbefore being posted.

In addition, the company maintains that Gaggle is the first web site toprovide powerful tools for filtering blogs. Each blog entry is scannedagainst a blacklist of inappropriate words and phrases and all graphic filesare processed through Gaggle’s Anti-Pornography Scanner. Gaggle’s APS canblock pornographic images while allowing appropriate images. The APS evenscans URLs to block web sites that contain pornographic content. If a blogentry is blocked by the Gaggle filters, the entry is flagged until it isapproved by an educator.

Michael Kessler, Vice President of Gaggle commented, ”As a leader in providing safe email to students, we felt that building a safe student blog system was a natural fit. While we love to see the advancement of technology, we have to question the safety with some of the emerging technologies. Many of the Blogging websites that students are utilizing, such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com, just don’t have any kind of monitoring or safety capabilities in place, which can leave students in a vulnerable position for sexual predators and cyberbullying. We felt that students needed a safer environment where they could express themselves.”

In addition to students, educators all over the country may incorporate the new technology into classrooms and daily curriculum. Educators can use blogs as a current event log, an online portfolio of student work (E-portfolio), or as a type of message board. Educators can also have students share their research findings, creative writings, literature reviews, and so much more.

Gaggle.Net was founded in 1998, and is in its seventh year of providing safe, teacher-controlled email to K-12 students across the country and worldwide. Currently, over 13,000 schools are signed up for Gaggle.Net’s safe student email system. Gaggle.Net also includes student-focused chat rooms, message boards, digital lockers, and profile pages. All of these features are filtered for inappropriate content and images, and offer full monitoring capabilities to teachers. These tools are located on Gaggle.Net’s web-based system so learning and communication can continue anywhere there is an internet connection.

To learn more, please visit: www.gaggle.net.

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