http://ghsprincipal.edublogs.org/2007/02/27/teachers-gain-by-blogging-first/ Superintendent of Schools writes about learning and school management in rural Western New York. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:20:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://ghsprincipal.edublogs.org/2007/02/27/teachers-gain-by-blogging-first/comment-page-1/#comment-2178 Kimberly Moritz Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:14:07 +0000 http://ghsprincipal.edublogs.org/2007/02/27/teachers-gain-by-blogging-first/#comment-2178 Will--Maybe we need a "Facebook" (call it "Gradebook") for teachers and administrators. An on-line community that you enter by means of our profession and you build your space there however works for you, blogging or video or graphics or whatever, but we form connections. You know "9th grade English teacher seeking other English teachers to discuss novels". Our new teachers could easily adapt, coming from social networking as they know it, to us on "Gradebook". Make blogging look more like what they know? Kim Will–Maybe we need a “Facebook” (call it “Gradebook”) for teachers and administrators. An on-line community that you enter by means of our profession and you build your space there however works for you, blogging or video or graphics or whatever, but we form connections. You know “9th grade English teacher seeking other English teachers to discuss novels”. Our new teachers could easily adapt, coming from social networking as they know it, to us on “Gradebook”. Make blogging look more like what they know? Kim

]]> http://ghsprincipal.edublogs.org/2007/02/27/teachers-gain-by-blogging-first/comment-page-1/#comment-2174 Will Richardson Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:11:13 +0000 http://ghsprincipal.edublogs.org/2007/02/27/teachers-gain-by-blogging-first/#comment-2174 But so here's the push, Kim. Do they need to blog, or do they need to engage in larger, online conversations and communities in whatever that form that takes? For us, blogging is a natch. Words come pretty easily. Not so for others. But that shouldn't stop them from participating in this, in learning from it so they can understand the pedagogies of it for their kids. But what does it as well or better than a blog??? But so here’s the push, Kim. Do they need to blog, or do they need to engage in larger, online conversations and communities in whatever that form that takes? For us, blogging is a natch. Words come pretty easily. Not so for others. But that shouldn’t stop them from participating in this, in learning from it so they can understand the pedagogies of it for their kids. But what does it as well or better than a blog???

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