Blogging about Meeting about Blogging
This is getting pretty circular, but this morning we had a nice meeting about educational blogging. I’d write more about it, but Jeff Allen from Olympic ESD participated in the meeting via videoconferencing and he already blogged about it before the meeting was over.
We looked at educator blogs, classroom blogs, and aggregators like Bloglines. We also spent a lot of time talking about the applications and implications of blogs in the school system. It’s a very wide open topic, but there seems to be some significant interest in identifying blogging systems for students (such as David Warlick’s Blogmeister) that has moderating and other protections. There is also an interesting tension between staff blogs and a district’s legitimate need to monitor communication with parents and the community.
What’s really clear is we can’t ignore blogs. They’re going to continue to be created, used, and read. We might as well use this great technology as best we can.