Using blog for the purpose of professional communication

A blog is a easy way of communication. It's pretty simple to create a blog, it's free and then it makes a possiblilty for everybody to expose them self or their message to everybody who wants to read.

If you want to exchange opinions, experiences etc. with people all around you need a fora to plce your statements. You can make a homepage, use a LMS or as I will write this topic about; use a blog.

http://animasjoniskolen.blogspot.com/ is a blog made by a teacher with a special interest of makinge animations. She has developed a great blog within the topic, and there is a lot of information and also you can learn a lot by reading and following her blog. I will range her blog as a educating one.
Blogs like Trines matblogg http://trinesmatblogg.no/ is another blog about one special topic; food and recipes. Her you can also learn a lot about making food, and get inspiration.
There is blogs with all kind og themes, most of them maybe not very educational in a professional way.

But if you want to share your professional experiences there is absolutly a possibilty. As a teacher you could blog about you activities in the classroom and share them with others reading your blog. Some blogs also contains links to You Tube or other sites where you can get informartion and activities to use in your own classroom. Or a closer explanation if you find it necessary.

This video above is a good explanation of how to use the program Jam Studio. It's made by a teacher called Per (who also has a very good blog http://percoach.wordpress.com/ ), and he has used this program with his students and tells about his experiences.

I can read Per`s blog, and if I like, use his activities or get inspired by them. If I, and everybody else who read and use something in the same topic, comments and give back their experiences it will be a pretty good "bank" with tips etc. to develop your teaching.

This is just an example of all the opportunities blogs can give.
If you sell cars, I think, if you write a blog about your workdays, that blog will be interesting, inspiring and give other car salesmen many tips in their profession.

If I were going to make a conclution in this post it would be that blogging about professions can be really helpful for others with the same profession or interests. Keep blogging:)