I'm Blogging Me

1. What kind of educational leader do you want to be? Leadership is important in every institution and workforce.  Good leadership is what separates effective teams from ineffective ones.  I envision myself as a supportive leader.  One who recognizes my own strengths and weaknesses as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the staff.  I also want to be a leader who uses effective communication to establish initiatives throughout the school.  It is my vision as a leader to be someone who embraces and creates a positive and continual learning environment for staff and students.  I hope to be someone who stays abreast of new initiatives and guides, teaches, and supports my staff with professional growth. 2. How does the use of technology fit into the vision of your leadership and what you want for your school, teachers, students, and community? I have learned so much about how to use technology to communicate with our students and families.  I have...

Kathleen Morris, in her blog, "How to Teach Digital Citizenship Through Blogging"  creates an interesting argument surrounding the benefits of using blogging with students in order to teach them important digital citizenship skills.  Morris states that digital citizenship spans way beyond the concerns over "cyber safety" and "cyber bullying" and seeps into the world of rights and responsibilities when using online technology tools. There are many points made by Morris that I agree with, however, before I get into those a little deeper, I feel it is important to consider my concern, in that, after reading her blog I felt that Cyber safety and cyber bullying were discussed as being of less importance.  I may be new to the world of blogging, but I am not ready to consider that either of these occurrences should be down played.  Predators and bullies have a much bigger world to "play" in with the advancement of technology and social media. Morris...