Blogs are a very useful tool for many reasons. Administrators can use blogs to communicate with other administrators and teachers. For teachers, this would be ideal to communicate with an administrator because it would reduce the anxiety with meeting in person. They may feel more freedom to speak open and passionately. For administrators, it could be used as a sounding board for ideas and would reduce the need for meetings that waste time and can become unproductive. Blogs allow you to get right to the point. You can post links to other websites, use pictures and graphs along with text and it can be updated regularly.
Wikispaces are a lot like blogs with the exception that each person can alter what someone has written. Wiki's would also be useful for action research in that once the inquiry is started it can be updated and added to by different people, not just the original writer of the post. With a blog, the followers can make comments but not add to the original post. With either a blog or a wiki, anyone with internet access can become part of the conversation and can do it from work or home so that inquiry can be done at anytime.
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