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<p style="text-align:left;">Our district&#8217;s tech blog was recently listed in two articles from WordPress.com:  <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/classrooms/">Create an A+ Site with WordPress.com Classrooms</a>  &amp; <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/classrooms/">Make the Grade: Classroom WordPress Sites</a>   I&#8217;m excited to see WordPress extend their reach into classroom/educational usage.  They&#8217;ve even added new security features to allow teachers to select certain pages/posts to be password protected, which will be helpful for classroom lists and student directories.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Our district has been a huge advocate for WordPress &#8211; as we&#8217;re not only using WordPress for our district tech blog, as our entire district website (<a href="http://www.wdmcs.org">www.wdmcs.org</a>) is also a WordPress site.  In addition, we&#8217;re working our way through each of our fourteen schools to shift them to the usage of WordPress as well.  Check out our school web sites that are now using WordPress:  <a href="http://www.wdmcs.org/schools/clive/">Clive Elementary</a>, <a href="http://www.wdmcs.org/schools/westridge/">Westridge Elementary</a>, <a href="http://www.wdmcs.org/schools/jordancreek/">Jordan Creek Elementary</a></p>
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