Educational Leaders Using Blogs

There are many ways that educational leaders could use blogs. One beneficial way that I see blogs being used would be to publicize information and solicit other's responses to that information. For example, a new curriculum could be adopted for a specific class. The details of that curriculum could be presented in the educational leader's blog with key concepts and changes being the hi-light of the post. Others reading the blog could post their personal ideas and feeling about the new curriculum in an informal manner. I feel that more people would respond in this manner instead of having to go face-to-face with an administrator. I do realized that this can open up many bad cans of worm in that people do feel at liberty to say more than they often should when they "type" a response instead of vocalizing it in person; however, a with all information gathered, there will always be the good with the bad, and you just have to learn to sort through to the good stuff. Not only can information be blogged to the stakeholders of a school, but they could also be used to get information out to faculty and staff. The format of the blog allows others to see all posts, and this might work better instead of one-to-one emails being sent from one administrator to a group of teachers and then that administrator having to sift through 100 different, individual responses. With multiple individuals being able to view and comment to blog posts, more opinions will be seen, and possible more solutions given.