Analysis of How Educational Leaders Might Use Blogs

Okay, so we're back to blogging. Which if you have been keeping up with my blog you will know that although I wasn't a fan at first, but I have grown to truly enjoy updating my blog. I plan to keep up my blog now as long as I am an educational leader, because it allows me to "reflect" on my thoughts and actions and even sometimes vent! I believe that educational leaders could benefit from using blogs in a variety of ways. First of all blogs provide an excellent outlet for discussion and sharing ideas with someone from outside the loop. What I mean is that sometimes as a leader it is helpful to "bounce" your thoughts off of someone in a similar situation as yourself. Many times as an educational leader I just simply needed to interact and share my thoughts and ideas with someone of the same caliber. Secondly, blogs would benefit educational leaders by providing a resource for even more experiences, actions, and reflections. After all, expertise stems from reflection and through a blog educational leaders would have that many more opportunities to reflect on others' experiences and actions. Finally, I think blogs would enable educational leaders to attack broad statewide issues through "power in numbers!" Blogs would create an immediate ongoing discussion board relating to every hot topic in education, just as our discussion board has done through Lamar. Instead of having to read about issues in a monthly magazine or periodical, educational leaders would have an opportunity to immediately be aware of topics and give their own personal opinion and feedback. In conclusion, I think blogs encompass 21st Century Learning and we as educational leaders should "set the pace" for our teachers and students.