Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

Sep 22nd, 2007 by Cathy Nelson

Carolyn Foote from the blog Not So Distant Future is asking the blogoshere to point her to school administrators who blog. Since I just did some of this back in June 2007, I will point her to that link, but also add some more that have been added to my own bloglines account since that conference.

Carolyn, I wish you the most positive karma, well wishes and prayers in hopes that this session you are presenting at the Internet Librarian Conference in October is highly attended and successful. I’d never heard of this conference, and now of course I’m adding it to my wish list for future professional development opportunities. Please let me know if there will be a backchannel for following your session or any other sessions at this conference, since I know it is already too late to ask about going (not to mention there is no way I can afford to go right now.) [UPDATE: Carolyne Foote will be attending the Internet Librarian West conference in Monterey, CA.]

I’ll be attending our SCEdtech in just a few short weeks, and it will have to be enough. It’s always a good conference too, and I look forward to seeing my friends from around our state. I work with the planning board, so I have a whole different view of this conference, and with each day drawing us closer to conference time, I am more and more excited! But still, I have conference envy for the Internet Librarian Conference.

Here are a few Adminstrator Blog links from my Bloglines account, that you may want use in your session:

Dave Sherman’s The Principal and Interest

Melinda Miller’s Willard East Blog

Random Thoughts of an Ed Admin Lifer

Normaqn Maynard’s The Principal’s Office: A view from THIS side of the desk

Mr. Moses

You’ve already mentioned the other educational admin blogs I follow in your original post, but I think these will add nicely to your growing list.

UPDATE – Monday, September 24, 2007 Jeanette Johnson’s From the Principal’s Desk.

Posted in Conferences, Library, Professional Development, South Carolina

3 Responses to “School Administrators Who Blog”

on 22 Sep 2007 at 4:00 pm1Carolyn Foote

Cathy,

Thanks for the links! I appreciate them and will add them to my list.

I’m planning to feature both blogs and web 2.0 tools (like Jott, RSS, Pageflakes, Wikis, etc.) and how they can help administrators.

By the way, your link connects to the International Internet Librarian conference, which is one I also have envy for attending!

I’ll be at Internet Librarian West, also in a great location, Monterey, Ca.

Thanks for the help and support!
Carolyn
on 22 Sep 2007 at 10:04 pm2Jeanette

Cathy – Thanks for your blog, and for this post. As a school principal myself, and a relatively new blogger, I’m always on the lookout for other principals’ blogs, in addition to the teacher and media specialist feeds I’ve been collecting. Thanks for helping to point me to a few new ones!
on 23 Sep 2007 at 11:48 pm3Dave Sherman

Cathy,
Thank you for the mention. I appreciate that you noticed my blog. I think reading other blogs is the key to writing good posts for your own blog, and I try to read as many blogs as possible. I will definitely keep up with yours.
Dave