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It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Monday, 18 July 2005
Mo, Jul 18, 2005
Ofsted aims to improve standards of schooling by appointing the most
successful head teachers to take charge of more than one school.
According to the chief inspector of schools, David Bell, falling standards in schools are often a result of poor leadership.
In a report quoted in the Guardian, he suggests that: "We don't need thousands of perfect leaders; we just need to systemise the knowledge of the ones we have better."
According to the chief inspector of schools, David Bell, falling standards in schools are often a result of poor leadership.
In a report quoted in the Guardian, he suggests that: "We don't need thousands of perfect leaders; we just need to systemise the knowledge of the ones we have better."
Sounds like a perfect problem for knowledge blogs to open up,
contribute to, solve problems through, communicate and share best
practice. An open network of blogging heads. The good, the bad and the
ugly. Using the power of the network to find the smartest solution.
Maybe a business idea here. There are 24,000 heads in the UK.
"Why do some people believe that just because they've taken classes, they can teach?"
A useful and bitingly true list of 11 things you need to know!
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A useful and bitingly true list of 11 things you need to know!
"Blogging really helped me see what I have accomplished. It helped
me look at the more important things about teamwork and setting goals.
Before I started blogging, I would always think about ‘I don’t like
that person because he did this’ or ‘I don’t like that person because
she said that’, but it made me look at how much can happen when you
work with others."
"Blogging was very fun for me because it was a way for me to express my feelings about a masterpiece of mine. Also it was a joy to know people all over the world could read about something I spent hours building. This was definitely a way to get people to really learn of my class’s accomplishment. This is one piece of work that I will never forget. It helped me improve my writing skills, especially my ability to express myself on paper. Before I struggled to freely express myself. I would take a long time to write something and then it wouldn’t seem very personal. It would also be full of grammer, spelling, and punctuation mistakes. Writing on the blog wasn’t something I had to think about. I just did it. We came in right after we had finished working and started writing about it. The writing was short and straight to the point. I just told my audience what I was doing and how I was feeling about it. This was great practice for me. I know that my writing has become more understandable from blogging."
"Blogging also made me combine a lot of old and new writing skills. I learned and used a lot of punctuation, spelling and grammar in my blogging."
"When I heard that we would be ‘blogging', I had no idea what it was. Once I learned about how we would be writing our own articles and opinions on the internet, I was very excited. I like when teachers give you freedom to express yourself. The blog gave me a chance to reflect on what I have done and reading others’ blog entries made me understand how they felt while building. Blogging was very fun and it was cool knowing that other people could go online and look at something my class was working on that very day. I like going back and looking at the blog to remember different things that went on while building."
"Blogging was an interesting learning experience. It was a first for me ever. Heck, I barely knew how to surf the web, let alone help run a weblog! We had a bit of bad luck with technology at first. One of my entries even got deleted and only the title was left! I never did get it back. Most of us got really into the blog and lots of entries were just plain funny! I especially enjoyed coming up with the most creative titles possible. My family really enjoyed reading everyone’s entries. In the past my family would ask me what I’d done at school, and I’d just give them short, vague answers. By reading my blog, my family was able to understand what I’d done that day and we could discuss it at the dinner table that night. It was a fun thing to do in the end and now I am thinking about making a blog of my own. "
