Resources

Ideas for what to blog:

• Blogamonth
• Teacher Leadership Challenge
• Teaching Channel Blog
• Edutopia Discussions
• Repurpose previously created content (essays, papers, presentations, reports, etc.)
• Video blogging - short videos of you giving a talk with a short paragraph to set the stage
• Photo blogging - one or more images with captions, and perhaps an additional paragraph to set the stage 

Ideas for when to blog:

• Commit to a frequency that fits your schedule (e.g., monthly, biweekly, every week)
• Carve out a time in your schedule and make an appointment to blog (e.g., each Thursday at 7pm)
• If you get an unusually creative block of free time and feel ambitious, consider creating several posts as drafts and scheduling them for automatic publishing later
• This is known as "blogging your heart out"

Ideas for why to blog:

• Give your students and yourself voice
• Set your ideas free (like a message in a bottle) for others to find
• Reflection
• Influence
• Archive
• Curating resources for yourself and others
• Digital portfolio

Ideas for how to blog:

• From your computer (i.e., from the web) using Blogger, Wordpress, etc.
• From a mobile app on the go
• Kidblog (for younger bloggers)
• Start a post, write a little at a time each day or every so often, and plan to synthesize and publish later in the week