Archive for the 'Blogging' Category
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 [...]
Jan
21
Four Babulous Floggers
January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is just a very quick post to highlight four classroom teachers doing brilliant things with blogs. You may want to add their class blogs to your blogroll, get your class to leave them a comment, or follow them on Twitter: Peter Rafferty (@raff31 on Twitter) Peter is a real blogging vet: he has been [...]
Oct
26
Installing Plugins on WordPress MU
October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Because WordPress is Open Source, and because there is a vast community of developers tweaking it for their own particular requirements, a vast library of plugins are available for you to install on your blog. A plugin is a small piece of code that adds functionality to your blog. Some are extremely simple, others are [...]
Sep
9
Transferring posts from one blog to another
September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
As a preface to a piece on setting up your school blogsite for the new year I’m putting up some instructions on transferring posts and comments from one blog to another. The instructions here are for WordPress, however, since practically every blog platform uses a standard .xml file for exporting its content, it really doesn’t [...]
May
5
Blogging in Wakefield
May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
It was great to meet so many teachers at today’s Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation’s HQ in Wakefield. The first half of the day was run by Blue Peter award winning author, Alan Gibbons, whose blog, I’m proud to say, is hosted by me at http://alangibbons.net Alan’s theme was making the most of an author visit and [...]