Blogs can be used by educational leaders for many reasons. They can be used to inform, build consensus, build morale, give and receive feedback and for professional growth.
Annoucements whether daily or weekly or monthly can be made on a blog. For some teachers this may be a plesant alternative to sorting through the countless e-mails that arrive everyday. Keeping teachers informed and giving them an avenue for feedback can build and sustain morale, which is extremely important to any school.
Blogs can be used for professional learning. As a student in the Leadership Master's program, I can learn a great deal from my fellow student's postings. Likewise, teachers and administrators can learn from reading posting and responses from each other on a progessional blog.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
If you can make blogs eliminate so many emails, sign me up! Like so many others, I will get up in the morning and answer emails until time to get ready for school. Sometimes I get to school, things happen, don’t get back to the computer until lunch and there are 20-30 new emails! Unfortunately, it has become too easy to just send an email rather than trying to see someone face to face. I like your idea that blogs could help this situation.
ReplyDelete