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I'm not one for musts when it comes to using social media. No one will die if they don't use a Ning. Great teachers will continue to be great, even if they never Tweet. An educator can be a passionate...
I'm not one for musts when it comes to using social media. No one will die if they don't use a Ning. Great teachers will continue to be great, even if they never Tweet. An educator can be a passionate and competent leader without a blog or Facebook presence.
There are plenty of pundits out there who will tell you that you must use online tools, and they will set down rules about how to use them. I'm sure that these well-meaning experts believe they're providing a service for those new to participation in an online space, but in doing so, they've forgotten the most important piece: the user. They have neglected to ask, "What do you want to do with the opportunities to create and share on the Internet?"
My alter ego is a doyenne of edublogging. For a little over six years, we have occupied a small branch of the Web. We cling as tenaciously as we can to a variety of other educators who blog. But six years is a very long time in the age of Internet. Fifteen edubloggers were interviewed by USA Today in 2006. Today, less than half of us are still standing. Surely