Creative Ways for Educators to Use Blogs

      Blogs have fast become an easy way to express and share ideas with the global community. As an educator I am just beginning to learn and uncover ways to creatively use a blog. First, it can be used as a tool to relate comments to parents about the goings on of the school and classroom. Second, issues can be posted so that parents, students and the community can post a response. This creates an easy and effective way of obtaining information from a variety of sources, thus helping others to feel like an active part in the problem solving. Third, new information learned by the educator who published the blog can be shared. How wonderful it would be if educators took the time to write about new things learned or tried. Thus providing a way to share new inovative ideas that may inspire other educators. With time a plethera of  ways to use blog as an educator will surface enhancing multilpe aspects of communication and education.