I’m a HS administrator that is preparing for superintendency myself. I currently love the blogging that I’m doing here at Educational Insanity, but I have no clue where to start to actually make my own site and/or maintain anything about it. I have talked with my HS students (a few anyway) and they don’t “blog” although they instant message, use facebook, etc. which is quite similar (I believe). I’m not a techno-anything, but I am comfortable loearning a few new things too. So what is step one for an old, out of date, HS principal with good intentions? I look at this site, and simply stated, am overwhelmed at what it must take to manage this – in addition to a 70+ hour a week job and formal classes (plus a family, community, church, etc.). Help me make the jump here to get it started or tell me if I should just follow this pattern of responding on other sites until I am more competent. Advice?

“What? Oh yeah, yeah… I’ll do it, don’t worry.”

Two days went by. We asked him to blog then and there. One of us might have pressed the return key to post what he had typed.

“That’s all there is to it?”

Yeah, we added. “That is online now?” Yeah… thanks.

That night, so the tale goes, he stopped at Food Lion before going home. “Dr. Morgan, saw your blog today, I’ve subscribed,” a parent told him.

“My what? Oh yeah, thanks…”

Once he found our community actually read the things [the blogs], he took to the practice right away. He asked soon after to make some podcasts.

And it made the world of difference to our teachers who saw it was an initiative carried forward, all the way from the top.