Sarah e-mailed me these great suggestions for a teacher weblog…now to find the time:

“-Make it as easy as possible for teachers to get into the conversation. Right now there’s a link called Participate, which opened up my email client: so someone has to correspond with you in order to sign up. I’m not too familiar with how Blogger works, but is there a way teachers can just join the site right from the front page?

– Making it inviting to not only current edubloggers, but also teachers whoaren’t using the technology yet, but who are thinking about it/have heard about it.

– Provide a comprehensive set of “getting started” links: what are weblogs, example weblogs, where you can set up a weblog, links to other places where similar conversations are going on.

– Also, make it inviting to those people who aren’t teachers, but who support teaching and learning: technologists, librarians, etc. Many of these people play key roles in supporting the technology, working with writing, and so on. The conversation should include everybody, but it might be interesting at some point to have sub-categories for the various different roles to discuss specific issues.