Skybrary Blog

Blogs can convey information easily for so many different purposes — both personal and professional. I’ve seen friends watch their granddaughter grow daily through a blog even though she’s 8 hours away, I’ve been following Leroy Siever’s battle with cancer, I follow local news through a couple of blogs (get alternative viewpoints that way), and I follow several blogs dealing with technology and school libraries. The neat thing about blogs is once you get a system down, it really doesn’t take that long to keep up with reading them.

I maintain a book review blog for my middle school students, I have a blog to track my reading, and I even keep a bike blog where I track my mileage and routes (but I don’t post this one — who else cares?), and I have sporadically kept a blog to share resources with my faculty. I gave up on that because at the time, blog readers were not as easy to use as they are now and it really was too much work for teachers to check the blog. It became easier for me to just email information to those I knew could use it. I’ll try this one to share resources with teachers — could be a good way to get to know my new faculty.