Blogging for My school or Now what?
I am excited, frustrated, and a little impatient.
We had Alan November at our School in Staten Island on January 13th, and as expected he was terrific. He really connected with our staff. With his permission I will be posting a pod-cast of that session in the near future. If you have never seen Alan speak I suggest you do. He is the ultimate teacher and does something all the really good teachers do, use their natural curiosity to drive their classroom/audience. Good teachers model learner’s curiosity for their students, unafraid of where that may lead . In essence creating the perfect classroom model, good teachers learn with their learners.
Okay so Alan was good.
Our teachers were inspired. Many are now playing with Skype, del.icio.us and Garageband.
Many are now open to seeing their classrooms, and how they teach in new ways. So What Now? How do we keep the momentum going, and just where do we want this momentum to take us?
Our plans are to contract Alan’s company as a blogging service and see where that leads. I myself am looking into some grant writing, to support our endeavors.
I will keep you posted as to how successful we are to try and get a good portion of our teachers running their own blogs, and just how this impacts our small special education school.
