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?