blogpilot

After a couple discussion a few futher ideas have come up.

Using the Blog for writing two sides of a discussion / argument. It would make sense to use the category facility for this so the author can indicate whether they are pro or anti etc
Working with other schools. If another school is set up in [...]

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Deepcar. Working with the same class of children. Class continued their spreadsheet work. One PC was left logged into the Blog and the kids were given opportunity to post messages. Children were asked to use their first name and surname initial only as the blog is visible to the public.

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Deepcar kids introduced to the Blog set up for them. The lesson was focused on spreadsheets and a few of the class were given a chance to post a message about the activity they were doing. One PC was logged into the blog ready to post and kids took to posting very easily.

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Posting to a page in the wordpress blog system
Users can write pages BUT pages work outside of the chronological order of the blog. Pupils will therefore mainly post directly to the blog. Pages may be used for another purpose eg a project or activity write up.
Adding pictures
Pictures are uploaded and then dragged to the editor [...]

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Two users have been created for each blog. There is an admin user which allows full access to the system. There is an author user which the pupils will use to post entries to the blog.

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The pilot is being run to investigate one of the aspects of Web2.0. The development of the internet has produced a number of new tools which focus on social interaction. Weblogs or blogging is one of those tools.
The pilot is being run at Deepcar St. Johns Junior School with a Year 5 class and ccg4 [...]

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