Emmet Rosenfield's work came to me on a National Writing Project listserve. As a Virginia Writing Project consultant, Rosenfield is currently keeping a once-a-week blog entitled "Eduholic" where he sits down and writes about his teaching practice.
Oh, P. 2008. Eduholic: Blogging teacher-consultant gets national attention. On the National Writing Project website:
http://nwp.org.
Rosenfield admits the blog, "gives him an opportunity to reflect on his practice and make those reflections available to the world." In addition, the blog has made him a better writer. The risk-taking and real-world audience has informed his teaching, connected him better with his student and parental communities, and offered him feedback from teachers around the world.
Blogging is a "brave new world," because audiences are responsive. Rosenfield writes, "It's time to 2.0, as I wrote last post. At least, time to take another few baby steps towards integrating the best of today's technology into my teaching repertoire...I can't in good consciousness continue to teach digital natives without employing tools that are the most effective available."
His blog, Eduholic, is written more journalistically than as a diary-type posting site. As with all writing, knowing the audience and purpose for the material is key, and it is wise to think about who will read his postings: teachers, parents, students and inquirers like me. Traveling on the frontier of the profession, work like Emmet Rosenfield's sets a pace for education in the future. It's worth a visit, for sure.
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