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You are invited to join our new professional development blog; enter the conversation and write posts about important issues that focus your learning and help other CAIS colleagues. Think of our blog as a faculty lounge for all CAIS educators. It's our venue to share professional learning, ask questions, and give advice:  [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/ Just as an "unconference" moves forward with a participant driven spirit, the Commission of Professional Development created this blog to be a forum for CAIS educators to exchange thoughts, questions and insights about important issues in our learning communities. Email [ mailto:bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org ]bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org for a simple step to becoming a member of this blog. What do we hope this blog will become? An opportunity for CAIS educators to jettison inhibitions that they may have about "writing in the social media" world and break into the digital forum by sharing the wisdom we know exists among CAIS minds. Click on this Edutopia link for an example of a dynamic blog for educators:  [ http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar ]http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar Imagine that the above content of that post and comments were specific to CAIS educators-perhaps from a colleague! The content would be so useful. Moving forward, the CAIS blog will host interesting topics with comment threads that relate to the contexts of CAIS learning communities because CAIS educators know a great deal about teaching and learning. The blog will also be another lens to design professional development programs. The CPD wants to read your posts. Also sign up for updates by clicking on the "Follow Blog via Email" hyperlink so that you can follow your colleagues: [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/

I would like to have students follow one of these blogs for a while, then respond.

In case you were looking for more reading material. . .

Great Doug Johnson blog post on effective strategies for technology integration coaches.

blogging in the classroom

Make Use of Blog -- All about making effective use of digital resources.

YIS Learning Hub using Google Apps and blogger (?) to give each student a blogging space as their portfolios.

Nice write up of how 11 students are going on a reporting trip from Worcester Academy in Mass to DC as reporters for their school. They will be reporting back to campus via flckr, twitter, youtube, and blogs.

This blog post takes ratemyprofessor.com as the starting premise of a radical shift in education based on crowd-sourcing. Identifies 4 trends shifting the landscape:: connection, openness, share everything, record everything.

Angela Maiers blog post on LeaderTalk about "Literacy 2.0" -- what does it mean, what does it look like, and how do we get there?

Sheryl's blog post includes 9 principles to help with shifting school culture.

SNBeach blogs about reforming vs. transforming. the secret to change lies in developing the social fabric, capacity and connectedness found in communities of practice and learning networks.

A blog to follow--she posts reflections on great examples of teaching and learning.

teacher terminated from a Catholic school in PA as a result of an incident involving and exacerbated by her blog