Teachers are taking the world of blogging by storm. For some reason, administrators have been lagging behind. Here are a few ways school administrators can use blogs.
- Principal-to-Teacher
- Post end-of-the-year to-do lists.
- Post all updates to one place to avoid confusion and mixed messages
- Rather than sending e-mails to teachers school-wide, post them all to one blog to keep mixed messages from circulating around the school. Technical difficulties (e-mails not reaching everyone) can be avoided. This is another way of avoiding lost messages. These posts will always be available unless deleted by the principal him/herself.
- Principal-to-Self
- Reflection on action research plans
- Action research works well with an ongoing log consisting of developments, ideas, literature research, data, etc. A great place to compile all of this information is either on a wiki or a blog.
- Reflection on actions and growth
- Learning log
- In my classroom, I have my students keep learning logs for various things (each continent, each time period, war, each leader, etc.) I've also found that keeping a learning log on a blog is a great way for teachers to reflect. I'm sure that it's also a great way for an administrator to keep track of things he or she learns throughout the school year or career.
- Principal-to-Stakeholder
These are just the things that I have thought about. I'm sure that there are several other ideas out there! Please share any additions.
- Additions to the newsletters
- For instance, at the bottom of a segment in the newsletter, you can add "See more photos at our blog at http://ourblog.blogwebsite.com
- Ongoing newsletter
- Keep accomplishments or important announcements on the blog throughout the month in addition to printing a monthly newsletter.
- Principal-to-Parent
- Forms
- Announcements
- Accomplishments
- To-Do lists
- Include anything parents might need to know
- Principal-to-School Board
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