How Educational Leaders Might Use Blogs

Before I started this action research course, I was very ignorant on what a blog really is. I always knew it was a way for a person to write down their ideas. After setting up my blog and doing my reading, I now feel that a blog is extremely valuable to an educational leader in a lot of ways. It allows a leader to write down their thoughts and feelings about virtually anything and everything so they can refer to it later. It can be used for self reflection. It can be used to document the results of various activities that have been implemented. It can be used as a way to ask for help from others that might be facing similar experiences or that have more experience in that area. It can be used as a way to communicate with followers on various important matters and give them the ability to provide feedback in a different manner than e-mail. A blog is more interactive and has many more possibilities. I look forward to having a different avenue with which to keep track of my thoughts than just pen and paper. I always struggle with remembering things that I have thought of that I need to do and this will now allow me a way to write down those things before I forget them.