Jumping in - Look Ma, no obsessing

I've stayed away from blogging until now, awaiting a real-world event that would make blogging imperative for me.

Such an event occurred this past week as I joined a citizens volunteer committee in Newton, Massachusetts preparing an update on the technology plan for the public schools. My subcommittee is commissioned to look at Emerging Technologies, with the suggestion that it's OK to be freewheeling. Let other subcommittes shoot down our ideas for budgetary or other reasons; our role is to be the idea folk.

Not that blogging is really just Emerging. Still, in public K-12 schools, I'm not at all aware of how common educator facilitated blogging is today. While I learn, I figure I'd better get blogging, so here I am.

With no real clue as to the best place to start, I embraced gratefully Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson. He provides specific sites to set up blogs, as well as other Web-based tools, all with clear step-by-step instructions. With Will's guidance, I found my way to blogger.com. And so, here I am! I plan on blogging about my findings with educational techologies, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Researching where to plant my blogging flag is the kind of thing that normally take me forever, but I need to accelerate my learning, so many thanks to Will for his book and his suggestions.