Are we ready for the next move?

Ok, Tom. You put it out there and I think I'm willing to throw in my thoughts about what we need to do, at BHS, to make the next move.

First of all, it has to be more than just you and me playing around with a blog. And if we are serious about that REAL change we both know is coming, then we have to be willing to REALLY change what we do. Other teachers have to join us in a concerted effort to blog regularly and use the same Web 2.0 tools in our classrooms. That's going to take time.

You are familiar with Karl Fisch's blog (the What If? guy), well it looks like he's established a cohort of teachers who maintain professional blogs and have created them for students in the class. Why can't we do that? Maybe you and I should look into setting up a workshop on using blogs. I know that it wasn't until I started experimenting that I truly discovered all that is out there. The people who showed me all that are teachers out there who blog and maintain wikis. In the last four months, I've spent a lot of time online regularly reading dozens of blogs. Unfortunately, I'm up too late tonight doing just that.

Read this post, from a teacher in South Korea, who is very active in using blogs and wikis. He has some interesting thoughts about how it should be done. His ideas are part of a thread he's posted about the use of blogs in classrooms and the concerns about how teachers can ruin them if they aren't used properly.

Your move.