How can educational leaders use blogs?

Educational leaders can use blogs like everyone else uses them; the only difference is that other people are looking to them for their reflections and leadership on how to do things. Dana states that a blog can be a powerful collection tool, but can also be shared with students or teachers or the world for that matter. Ironically, it is often “difficult for the novice principal-researcher to view their own reflections as important data!” (Dana, 2009). I can understand this and there is the extra pressure that principals are looked at as the models to both teachers and students in the school. But if they can get past this, a blog is a great way to put ideas out and get comments back from a variety of sources. Educators in the same district or school can comment, but even better, educators from other places can comment and this will be valuable for someone who is conducting an inquiry.