My project this week has been to set up a whole school blog (still much to do on this site but it's workable..) - on which live the links to the blogs for each class in our school! It's taken me a lot of time as we're using wordpress and I've had to learn how to use it and have messed up numerous blogs along the way....
I used the Heathfield CPS blogs site as a model and at first I didn't realise it was a main blog with links on it and spent a long time trying to work out how to add new posts to various pages....didn't quite work! After chatting to our ICT man in school we decided to do this - a main wordpress blog for the whole school which needs coding and things I don't quite understand which will be managed by him and primaryblogger blogs for each class which I will manage and give input when each class gets going....Year 3 is going to be the first class to get going with it and I'm very excited about the whole thing!
Here's the Year 3 blog so far....sorry not much there yet but do come back soon!
I have added Year 3 as a class under one name as a contributor and created an email address for them to send work to. I'm going to see how this goes and it might be that I need to add more generic names as contributors. I'm thinking that generic names will be easier to manage when it comes round to September and there's a new Year 3 class....I'll just have to see how that goes.
I have many ideas of what we could do and I hope that - as with the children at Heathfield - the enthusiasm for blogging and sharing work with the big wide world will be infectious and in turn have an impact on what happens inside the classroom before any work gets to the blog!
Here are a few of my ideas, some of which have been stolen from other blogs so thank you!
I used the Heathfield CPS blogs site as a model and at first I didn't realise it was a main blog with links on it and spent a long time trying to work out how to add new posts to various pages....didn't quite work! After chatting to our ICT man in school we decided to do this - a main wordpress blog for the whole school which needs coding and things I don't quite understand which will be managed by him and primaryblogger blogs for each class which I will manage and give input when each class gets going....Year 3 is going to be the first class to get going with it and I'm very excited about the whole thing!
Here's the Year 3 blog so far....sorry not much there yet but do come back soon!
I have added Year 3 as a class under one name as a contributor and created an email address for them to send work to. I'm going to see how this goes and it might be that I need to add more generic names as contributors. I'm thinking that generic names will be easier to manage when it comes round to September and there's a new Year 3 class....I'll just have to see how that goes.
I have many ideas of what we could do and I hope that - as with the children at Heathfield - the enthusiasm for blogging and sharing work with the big wide world will be infectious and in turn have an impact on what happens inside the classroom before any work gets to the blog!
Here are a few of my ideas, some of which have been stolen from other blogs so thank you!
- Blogging rules - thank you to mvass from Twitter
- A praise page - thanks to Diane Spencer (Heathfield HT) - they do praise texts
- A links page - quite a few blogs have this and it seems like a good way to add fun/educational games
- A regular post under the title 'What I know today that I didn't know yesterday' ...
- The use of sites such as voicethread
- The use of google docs to share work
- This site to create ebooks with turning pages
- Have a spellings page with sites such as Spellingcity
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