Blogs, Blogs, Blogs!
Blogs are basically interactive communication tools that people use for both personal and professional reasons. Did you know there are tons of great professional blogs for teachers?
My school district offers almost no professional development opportunities and also rarely pays for teachers to attend workshops or conferences (unless you’re an administrator). So, for the past two years, I have been growing as a professional educator almost exclusively by reading other teachers blogs and listening to educational podcasts.
Did you know there is even an online, virtual conference just for teachers? Check out the K12 Online Conference!
Here’s a little bit about the K12 Online Conference:
This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.
There is also a website that tracks conferences and resources just for teachers. It’s called HitchHikr and here is a blurb about it:
We live in a time of rapid change, where few of us are doing what we learned to do in college. Few of us are doing what we did three years ago. Our work becomes obsolete, or it gets insourced, outsourced, or even mobsourced to others, as we find new and more exciting niches of expertise to serve through.
In changing times, we need to raise our heads out of the water every once in a while, take a drink of kool-aid, network, learn, and energize. Yet, we can’t always make it to the conferences we need to attend to mix with the people we need to see — face-to-face. This is why Hitchhikr was invented, to provide you with a virtual space where, thanks to blogs, podcasts, and RSS, we can connect, share, respond, and grow knowledge out beyond the place and time of the event.There are many great resources out there, blogs among them.
Here is another creative video from the folks at Common Craft explaining more about blogs:
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