Tuesday, August 7, 2007

How will I begin to use blogs for professional development ?

My classroom consists of educators - networks of technology coordinators and library media specialists; participants in online classes and shorter workshop sessions; Advisory Committees made up primarily of administrators. So... I don't have an immediate answer to David's question of how will I begin to use blogs, what would instructional uses be for these groups.

I think that before I can begin to answer this question, I need more experience with blogs myself. I belong to a statewide group of Instructional Technology Services directors at each CESA -- otherwise known as CITSC. Blogger John Pederson, one of my colleagues at CESA 3, is patiently encouraging our group to begin using Web 2.0 tools. In May he set up a wikispaces specifically for us.

OK, John... I'm now ready to investigate it. You can thank David Jakes for the push that is getting me going.

2 comments:

John Pederson said...

Has my esteemed colleague from Illinois shown the "Feed Jake" video yet?

I hear it has gone viral on YouTube.

Sue said...

He did show us the video yesterday... music was great, he wishes he had more hair.