Educational Leaders Using Blogs

According to the Dana text, blogs are defined as “an easily created, easily updatable Website that allows an author (or authors) to publish instantly to the Internet from any Internet connection” (Dana 2009). Since principals can have extremely busy days dealing with central office, students, parents, and the community, they may not be able to get around their campuses to check on their teachers, counselors, or diagnosticians. To stay in contact with their staff, principals could use blogs as journals for teachers to post teaching ideas or other campus activities. Novice teachers could post their worries or recent teaching struggles allowing veteran, experienced teachers to offer advice and provide support.