Archive for the 'Blogging at School' Category
Aug
31
New Year, New Bloggers
August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I’d like to welcome some new schools to Creative Blogs for the Autumn term. It seems to me, from my very small and blinkered view of the schools market, that at last schools are beginning to understand the power of blogs as a tool for learning. In 2010 I have found that I no longer [...]
Aug
20
Setting up your blogsite for a new school year
August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
As we look forward to new classes and new challenges every September, we also need to give our school blogsites a shake up, or at very least, review what’s worked and what’s not, clean up the links in the sidebars, remove unwanted widgets etc. and, most importantly, sort out the class blogs. Options for class [...]
Apr
13
Blog Rules
April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Click on the link below to download a set of suggested blog rules for your school. You may amend them according to your own circumstances and your own project. It would be helpful, if you made significant changes, to send us a copy of your own set so that we can put it here to [...]
Apr
13
Bannersketch
April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Via Twitter I’ve just discovered a neat new online tool called Bannersketch. It’s a simple and intuitive way of making banners and blogs for websites. You can upload your own images (as long as they are less then 500kb in size), play around with fonts, borders and colours etc. The site then sends you the [...]
Mar
9
The Impact of Blogging
March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I have been neglecting my own blogs recently, much to my shame. Then I spotted this tweet from David Mitchell of Heathfield Community Primary School in Bolton; and it reminded me why this whole blog thing is so important for schools: Blogging has been the single biggest impacting resource I have used in 11 years [...]