School blogs have the advantage of being easy to update with minimal technical expertise. Because blogs are based on a chronological arrangement and because you can embed and aggregate content including newsletters and the like, they are an excellent vehicle for disseminating and sharing information that might otherwise be distributed in print or other formats. Through strategic use of the Comment functionality of blogs, staff, students and parents can also be allowed to contribute to a conversation around any or all of the blog posts. Here are a couple of examples of the ever increasing number of principals and schools who are using blogs to communicate with their school community.
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Bellaire Primary School
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Bellaire Primary School is in Geelong, Victoria. This school blog is used to disseminate news and other information as well as aggregate other school based blogs.
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| Orange Grove Primary School (WA) |
Orange Grove School in WA is well known for the student podcasts that have established a world wide following. Note the use of embedded video and the recommended website links. |
| PHS Principal BLOG |
A high school principal blogs about education, technology, student engagement and things that are happening at Paris High School in Illinois. |
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Meriwether Lewis Elementary School
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Tim Lauer, the principal of Meriwether Lewis is one of the leading lights in implementing Web 2.0 in education as reflected in his school's blog. Note the use of Google Groups and Google Maps as well as the various teacher blog links. |
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From The Principal's Desk
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Jeanette Johnson from Lorenzo Walker Tech HS & Institute of Tech makes interesting use of other tools such as Animoto on her blog.
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