School Blog AUP
Have been playing with WPMU all week, and I’ve cracked a lot of the issues I was having. I figured this time we would do it properly and have students signing an Acceptable Use Policy. With a bit of...
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Some of you may or may not have been following the Egglescliffe Student Blogs site (http://egglescliffeblogs.org.uk), which was powered with B2Evolution. Following a fairly stagnant period, and then an...
View ArticleA seasonal quiz
A couple of things in one this morning. Over the weekend I put quite a lot of time into making a World Book Day Quiz using Wordle, Prezi and Google Forms. You use Prezi to view 15 word clouds based on...
View ArticleStudent Blogs Live
AUPs are signed, accounts set up and students are now posting at the Egglescliffe Student Blogs site. Only two posts so far, one of which was held back until personal blogs start going live after...
View ArticleGlutton for punishment or a terminal procrastinator?
I’m not sure why I do it1. In recent weeks I have: spent an entire day signing every pupil in the school up to the World Maths Day website and collating the maths sets so that password can be...
View ArticleCentury of Faces
I saw a link last night, followed it and watched a 15 minute video about something called “Be Very Afraid”, an annual… conference?… organised by BAFTA at which some of the most innovative students...
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Celebrating Achievement
Well, today was the day of the much anticipated (by me, at any rate) Achievement Show 2009. An early start, a reasonable train journey (2.5 hours) and a brisk walk (the recommended Tube station...
View ArticleWhy I might protect my tweets
Although this is primarily a post about Twitter, it has implications in a whole range of online communication tools. There has been a sudden rush of teachers protecting their tweets for a number of...
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Web Design in WordPress?
Image: eisenrah In Y8 our students do a web design unit. We do a little HTML, introduce Dreamweaver, plan a 4-5 page site and build it using templates and tables. The end result is, largely, not very...
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Time to move out?
Teflon I’ve been using Edublogs to host this blog since October 2006 (almost 3 and a half years!) and a couple of people have recently asked why I’m still using them. The truth is it’s probably 60%...
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