Blogging with children

by | Feb 7, 2011 | Blogging, blogposts, General Thoughts

I originally wrote this article to appear in the Spring edition of User Friendly, Hampshire’s ICT magazine. As the magazine has now appeared in schools, I thought it would be a good idea to copy it below for you all to see. I wrote this in October 2010. Do your...

Letting the children loose

by | Nov 8, 2010 | Blogging, blogposts

Yet another blogging post, it seems to be taking over at the moment but in a very good way. This week’s challenge was to see how children could get access to blog. I know Adam has been blogging, and that is fine for one child, but i want all of Year 5-6 to have...

Blogging without me

by | Nov 1, 2010 | Blogging, blogposts

We’ve been blogging at our school, you may have noticed as I’ve waffled on about it a fair bit, but I saw something today that made me smile and realise how far we’ve come in half a term (plus a day). We have blogs for each class and these are sorted...

Blogging with the whole school

by | Oct 30, 2010 | Blogging, blogposts

This post has been a long time coming. I am writing it because some people asked how we started blogging in our school. Now, I am not an expert in this field at all, for that I would hand you over to @mattlovegrove, @johnmclear (from Primary Blogger) or @hgjohn and...

Pets that blog? Whatever next!

by | Sep 5, 2010 | Blogging, blogposts

Weirdly, it will take me longer to write this blog post than it did to actually start, plan and finish my latest project! Oh well… @charliedeane has a class bear. Last year he had some adventures with Charlie’s class and the children and parents wrote...

Blogging: A quick guide

by | Jun 19, 2010 | Blogging, blogposts, Useful Sites/Software

I have been talking to schools about blogging recently. We have a blog in our VLE and this is good, but this is all hidden away within the VLE. There are huge benefits to this, it is much more secure and safer, but writing for an audience demands an audience. Recently...