How Educational Leaders Might use Blog

I believe I found a very sound yet simple explanation on the website Supporting Blogging.com
http://supportblogging.com/Educational+Blogging

According to the site Blogging is the posting of journal-like pages to a website. While these pages can contain photos or media, they are primarily focused on the easy ability to post written thoughts to a website. In a broader and more educational system, blogs are about communicating. You observe your experience, reflect on it, and then write about it. Other people read your reflections, respond from their perspectives by commenting or writing their own blog article. You read their perspectives, often learn something through their eyes, and write some more. Educational Blogging is blogging by students, teachers, administrators, industry experts, and other involved entities that focus primarily on the educational process and educational interests.
In the context of education, I agree with their approach of using blogging as a tool that teachers introduce to their students, then use as a means of promoting learning. One of the great educational benefits of the read/write web, and blogging particularly, is the opportunity for the student to become a "teacher" by presenting material to an audience. When we teach, we learn. Leaders can chose to either use blogging themselves or promote their use in the classrooms. I think that the ideal situation would be that the principal chooses to systematically blog and promote blogging school-wide. Blogging is a very powerful tool that educational leaders can use in order to engage the entire community, not only students, in active learning. Blogging also promotes literacy, collaborative work, and exposes the community to real world situations. Principals could invite school community members and others to participate in different school projects taking advantage of the Internet which means that the contributors can be located anywhere in the world and difference in time zone are not necessarily a roadblock.
I would like to wrap up with a couple of real examples of how blogging can be used by educational leaders. Some British scientists claim to have solved the scientific, philosophical mystery: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Why is this relevant? I am not an expert on the subject and I don’t know the answer, but according to one of the researchers "Understanding how chickens make egg shells is fascinating in itself but can also give clues towards designing new materials and processes." He also commented "Nature has found innovative solutions that work for all kinds of problems in materials science and technology — we can learn a lot from them." This may be the topic for a project at High School or College level, or it may simply be the reason to write your opinion and practice Standard English. If you want to know more about it follow the link.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38238685/ns/technology_and_science-science/

The other example is the news about Thierry Henry, famous French soccer player, joining the New York Red Bulls. If you follow soccer you know who these people are. I like soccer, I follow it and more importantly my students like soccer as well. I would use this piece of information to engage students in active learning. We could study France and USA. We could compare and contrast the two countries or cultures. We could review prediction skill, is he going to be as good as he was in Europe? How many goals is he going to score? What are the teams they will beat? Soccer is fertile field for teaching and learning, I like it and my students like it so it is a win-win situation where the sky is the limit in terms of educational activities. If you want to get further detail on the transaction follow the link.

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/worldcup/story/france-star-thierry-henry-joins-new-york-red-bulls