How Educational Leaders Might Use Blogs

I have honestly never given any thought to the idea of a blog being a tool for a school administrator.  I have always thought of bloggers being trendy, cool twenty-year old generation Xers commenting on subjects I would never be interested in.  How wrong am I?

Blogging, I have realized, is simply journaling in an online format.  I love to journal!  Recording my thoughts and experiences for my children and grandchildren has always appealed to me.  I again, never thought of it as a tool for a school administrator.  Wrong again!
 

While pursuing a Master’s of Educational Administration through Lamar University, I will conduct an action research project.  This will be a helpful component in my overall professional development as a school principal.  As I work through the entire inquiry process I will record my thinking on this blog.  This will serve as my online journal.

 

Administrators can also use blogs to combine text, images and links to other blogs.  The most awesome things is that anyone can comment and offer feedback from anywhere in the world.  What a great way to collaborate - another thing we educators love!