I just talked to the CCSD principals today about blogs, and since nobody kicked me out of the meeting I’m feeling pretty good. Since we will be working together to become comfortable with this I thought I’d post CommonCraft’s Blogs in Plain English video here. CommonCraft have great intructional videos explaining these modern web technologies, but it is up to educational communities to adapt them for our specific purposes.
In the hands of skilled teachers blogs become powerful tools for authentic writing, but they are also great touchstones to build relationships with other experts, which helps us connect to primary sources, vet information, or work collaboratively. Think about the abaility to publish your work or you class’ work to a worldwide audience; what can you do with this work that you couldn’t without the use of technology?
Seth,
Google Alert pointed me here. Thanks for the post on the technology tools you use. I will read that in some more depth. I started two blogs (one for community and one for staff) my last year as a principal and did the same thing when I came to the central office. I couldn’t live without them. Since that time, just about all of our schools have started their own blogs. I talked about some of them in this post: http://frankbuck.blogspot.com/2008/07/to-blog-or-not-to-blog.html
Very enjoyable reading! Keep up the good work.
Frank
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