Education Leaders and Blogging

Educational leaders can use blogging as a communication tool that will assist in gaining further insight into issues or problems. Moreover, blogs could be used by school leaders with the simple intention of sharing information. The leaders within the university could strengthen their ties to the community, stakeholders, staff and faculty buy opening up lines of communication. One idea is to put out thoughts on new programs or what is going to be happening in the future. This could open up doors to begin collecting ideas on the university strategic plan from feedback on blogs they post as well as make the staff feel as they have a voice in making decisions on policy or plans. The hard part for educational leaders is finding the time to participate in blogging along with action research. I really like the example of finding time to work out. (Dana, 2009) It was clear that when you find time to do engage in blogging and action research, then in the long run you will be in a good position to make better decisions as a leader.