Other hurdles remain in keeping classroom sites up and running, educators and technology experts say.
The first of the structured classroom sites, called New Beginnings centers, opened in the Bronx on April 10, and two more opened on April 14, each able to accommodate about 40 students.
We now know that if we get two or more teachers that get excited about the whole notion of building a classroom Web site, it starts to spread in the school.
Linking schools to the Internet clearly presents new privacy issues, like controlling access to classroom chat sites and children's records.
For teachers, blogs are attractive because they require little effort to maintain, unlike more elaborate classroom Web sites, which were once heralded as a boon for teaching.
Many classroom Web sites were created in the late 1990's, when a flurry of dot-com companies, like eChalk, HighWired, Pearson and Nschool.com, tried to capture a share of the e-learning market by signing up as many of the nation's 92,000 K-12 public schools as quickly as possible.
Last year he logged more than 10,000 miles, bringing Teddy four or five times a month to classrooms, historic sites, fairs, conventions and conferences throughout the United States.
Specific observations about the classroom or FCC site were discussed, and suggestions for improvements were included on the score reporting form.
After adjusting for teacher and classroom factors and site fixed effects, we found that the CSRP had significant effects on the improvement of teachers' perceived job control and work-related resources.
Pupils at Oxgangs primary, where the collapse of a substantial brick wall during a gale in January sparked off the crisis, will return to classrooms at another site on Wednesday, as will children at St Peter's primary, where similar defects were found, and two other primaries.
