Quad Blogging was implemented to connect students beyond classroom walls to explore social issues. Four middle school classrooms in New Jersey, Vermont, California and Qatar served as the research sites. Students engaged in collaborative inquiry around social issues, identifying a social issue specific to their context. Final products included found poems that presented a local response to a global issue. The research methodology for this study was qualitative naturalistic teacher research, guided by Lincoln and Guba's standards for credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. Data from four diverse classroom contexts were cross-analyzed identifying patterns and emerging beliefs about teaching and writing in a web-based platform. Data analysis also found shifts in teaching and learning driven by technology and collaborative inquiry.