Blogging in Action Research

Blogging is a online journal.  A reflective journal is a credible source during action research because it a place you can refer back and read to see your thoughts in chronological order.  While writing in the blog you to take time to think about your practices, write down and do a preliminary analysis of the data, write down thoughts and ideas that come to mind that may be helpful later in creating change, etc.  Reading back on the comments and posts in a blog allows you to step back into how you were thinking at the moment you posted which is definitely helpful when analyzing data especially for administrators as they are so busy and have a million things to do at once, it is hard to take time to focus on one thing and remember everything that happened and what you thought as it occurred, but it is easy to grab your phone and blog about it and later use that research to help yourself create change.  Leaders can also use blogs to get the opinions of other teachers at the convienence of their free time, and to get the opinions of other administrators and teachers not on their campus.  It also always those commenting to give a more unbiased opinion and a more focused thought out opinion.