I recently sent out a document asking for some editing help on a letter I want to send out to teachers at my school. I am a firm believer that teachers will never use new tools or try new methods of teaching, until they have a firm understanding of  the tools and methods on a personal level. In short, if you want a class full of bloggers, you need a blogger to sell it to them. A teacher mandated to “use” technology will never convince a class of students to blog.

To remedy this situation, I have decided to gather five to ten teachers from my school and walk them through the blogging process. From there we will move wherever their interests takes us, but I will guide them toward Twitter and building their own learning networks. I will encourage them to blog about whatever excites them, whether that is pedagogy or knitting. I just want to see teachers modeling good writing practice and taking charge of their digital identities.

Here is where you come in: Blog Alliance! How about you do the same thing? In a few weeks we will join our fledgling bloggers. As they become more comfortable we will help them find a supportive and critical audience. In a few months time, we will hopefully have some new blood in the network as well as a team of teachers ready to move our respective schools forward.

If you are interested please leave a comment with your details. Let me know if I forgot anything or other suggestions. I plan to send this letter (Edit it, use it, share it) out this week. My school is off for a week’s holiday but I would like to start before November.

Credit where credit is due, Clint Hamada coined the term Blog Alliance, but I am pretty sure it is under Creative Commons license. CC another lesson for the Blog Alliance!

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