Technorati, Blogs in Schools, and Superintendents

How familiar is anyone with using Technorati? I know a little bit about it and have heard the term bandied about with regularity. To learn more, I checked out the Technorati: About Us page and the thing that struck me was their comment: "Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs." I did a blog search for blog and reached an error page stating we weren't claimed and presented with a small box with html tags to place in our blog. As a librarian, 'tagging' my blog appeals to me in an organizational kind of way. Anyone utilizing this tool?

An article on Webblogg-ed was posted last week titled Getting Serious about Blogs in Schools caught my attention, especially when it detailed how much students have changed in this digital age and how we, as educators, need to be able to keep up. Of additional interest was the link to a post by Chris Lehmann, currently the Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Lehmann's post, Talking to 49 Superintendents, is a great piece which begins with the attention grabbing line "Tell them that our schools have to change or die." While neither of these blog articles are higher education specific, they are of interest because we are in many ways dealing with the same, continuing student body; freshman not far removed from high school.