You can't read this blog entry from Barbara Ganley and be left with any remaining doubt about the power of blogging, especially when it comes to the classroom. Entitled Change and the Twenty-First Century College Teacher, this post from Ms. Ganley is a tour de force of blog logic in these times. With special relevance to the academic setting, it should be required reading for every teacher, from pre-K to post-graduate. But it is so insightful about blogging in general it should be required readng for every corporate communications professional, too.

Here for example is just one of the many astonishingly candid and insightful statements she makes:

I know I'm a better thinker because of my blogging --I'm more inventive and more patient. I take risks. I fail. Publicly. In front of my students! In front of brave readers who kindly argue with me, pointing out what I've overlooked or oversimplified. And I am learning to be tougher on myself, to insist on having something to say instead of merely repeating myself or someone else. Slow blogging is both perilous and pleasurable. And it should, I believe, be an active part of any 21st-century teacher's practice as a window into this generation's world as well as a way to develop teaching-with-technology skills and a deep reflective practice.

Thanks, by the way, to this blog called SocialTech for bringing Ms. Ganley's post to my attention.