Many times I sit down at my desk for a grand total of 30 minutes in a day. The rest of the time I’m in meetings, duties, classrooms, or handling a student discipline issue, so, of course, the problem of when to blog arises. If you have noticed, dear reader, my blogs are generally short and to the point. I spend very little time on them, much like the short video clips I upload to Youtube. Not because I don’t care about content and form, but out of simple, practical necessity. I don’t have hours to use on blogging; therefore, I don’t, but I still do blog. Because I accept this simple fact about my life, I’m actually able to blog within the time frame I have available to me; otherwise, I would drive myself nuts trying to continually be an amazing blogger who slams out several lengthy posts per week. I bring this up because time is the excuse I hear far too often from administrators about blogging, “I don’t have the time to blog, I’m too busy.” Too often administrators want, some even demand, that members of the faculty blog, but then those same administrators turn around and claim that they can’t blog due to a lack of time. Do you really think that your teachers have time to blog? Most teachers I know who blog, complain about the lack of time, but they want to encourage their students, so they blog as a model, an example. Think how much can be gained by blogging as an administrator? Think of the example you make, the model you display. If you can wedge in 15-20 minutes to blog in a day, your faculty and students will be impressed with the effort.
