How Might Educational Leaders Use Blogs?

Blogging is used for the purpose of sharing our ideas, and opinions.  It allows individuals to communicate with others in order to offer their own personal insights.  Within the educational "environment", teachers are able to work collaboratively on an issue, or express ideas about professional development, explore concepts for improving teaching methods, perhaps ways to motivate students, etc..
An example of incorporating blogging in our classroom that was mentioned in our textbook was to allow our students to "blog" instead of the "traditional" journal writing with paper and pen.  I allow time in my classroom schedule for my students to do journal writing each morning (after providing them with a prompt).  I am not sure that my third graders would be good candidates for a blogging assignment, but I am looking forward to trying it once school resumes in the Fall.  I think this is a great, fun, creative way to introduce more technology into our classrooms and to our lessons.