Which Blog Plugins?

There is an old post where I listed the plugins that we use on our school blog to keep it ticking over and after a few emails with different people recently, and considering it has been three years since that post, I thought I should update it. At school, our blog...

Introducing Class Blogs

I received this tweet today. I’ve been having a few chats over Twitter with Mr Radburn over recent weeks and I am pleased that he is finally at the point where he is talking to staff about blogs.. But he asks a sensible question, how do you share blogs with...

Tidying the Blog

This is something that has taken ages, but mainly because it’s been done in half hour slots here and there. I have gone through my blog, tidied it a bit and made a list of my blog posts. One thing that I found is that people would often ask if I had written a...

A Blogging Update

Over two years ago, I wrote a blogging post giving some ideas for schools to get started and with the news that Posterous is closing, it makes sense to look at this and see if it is all still relevant. I must declare an interest in that I was a Blogger user, but moved...

Adding Links in WordPress

This term we have really been going for it with our blogs and one comment that kept coming up was that it was hard to find the “log-in” link on the site. We have our school blog (www.stjohnsblogs.co.uk) and we also have a number of class blogs too. Each...