#6 What is the educational value of blogs and blogging to the 21st century learner?

There are endless possibilities to blogging and blogs, it open many doors to communication. Communication is one of our shortcomings as principals that you only see teachers in passing and students if they are trouble makers. I believe blogs would allow for teacher input in ideas. Blogging would also allow for a 24 hour open format for faulty meetings. I believe also if you could have a open blog for parents this would open allow for more of open door policy in today's society. Many parents don't have the time to come to into the school during school hours but this would allow a open line of communication that is open all the time. The other form that I think would be a great resource to promote programs within the school is to have all programs have their own blogs, this would allow for students to visit these to view and determine if those are the things they are interested in. The best tool for everyone is the readily available dates that are up to date. This process would be much more user friendly than maintaing a website.