Natalie, I think if enough people pressed the issue with the district they might unblock these sites. However, I do think it will take parents expressing their opinions and desire for these websites in the classroom for the district to do anything. If we felt like our class and parents would be involved in the social bookmarking and bloggining it would definitely be worth the argument.
It would be great if the parents spoke up. I would LOVE to be able to use social bookmarking in my classes. I wish we could email our districts asking them to unblock these sites so we could use... more