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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Wednesday, 29 March 2006
We, Mar 29, 2006100 lines
Perpetual disobedience constitutes revolt against antidisestablishmentarianism society. 7 words I know so well. Grammar education meant the damned prefects were good fun till they gave you 100 lines by tomorrow, "or else." 7 words were allowed. They could be lenient and give small word lines, or... They were never lenient. Mess about too much in the corridors, get caught smoking, with no spare ciggie for a bribe... Sigh it was tough.
Pelsall's Mr Baker finds the longest word out of the dictionary and someone gets a prize.
Times have changed.
Pelsall's Mr Baker finds the longest word out of the dictionary and someone gets a prize.
Times have changed.
Time management skills
Getting the time in blogging, is Craig y Don's Head and nursery nurse. They're pounding out 5 more news items, all beautifully illustrated with thumbs. OK I'm helping out the nursery nurse :-) She's posting pictures instead of thumbs, attempted a news item, and now walks in in the morning and sees it all done nicely on the front ppage, she must think this system is pure magic.
I'm downloading the Manila pictures, dropping them in an email and posting them to the front page.
I'm hoping the Head's let her in on the secret tonight, and she'll post thumbs, or even send an email in. Hope I don't have to sprinkle pixie dust tonight, three nights on the trot ;-) Monday's Snowmen Tuesday's Culture and Citizenship nice pix (emailed in by me, photo'd by nursery nurse).
Breakfast club, and tennis club and hockey club and kerb craft by The Head. Citizen Journalism at its most sweet. I'm told the parents are really digging this.
I'm downloading the Manila pictures, dropping them in an email and posting them to the front page.
I'm hoping the Head's let her in on the secret tonight, and she'll post thumbs, or even send an email in. Hope I don't have to sprinkle pixie dust tonight, three nights on the trot ;-) Monday's Snowmen Tuesday's Culture and Citizenship nice pix (emailed in by me, photo'd by nursery nurse).
Breakfast club, and tennis club and hockey club and kerb craft by The Head. Citizen Journalism at its most sweet. I'm told the parents are really digging this.
500 words
Found this in my inbox this morning...
This call for chapters is for a forthcoming book by Chris Kimble and Paul Hildreth, "Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators" which is to be published in 2007 by Information Age Publishing Inc. Details of the book and a full version of the call for chapters can be found at:
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mis/CLEE/Call_for_Chapters.html
The aim of the book is to bring together the expertise of people who have worked with Communities of Practice (CoPs) in authentic educational settings across the world in a convenient, internationally based, workbook for people in the field of training and education. It is anticipated that this book will act as a resource for practitioners and academics that work in the field of CoPs and education.
Prospective authors are invited to send a 500-word outline of their chapter.
This call for chapters is for a forthcoming book by Chris Kimble and Paul Hildreth, "Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators" which is to be published in 2007 by Information Age Publishing Inc. Details of the book and a full version of the call for chapters can be found at:
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mis/CLEE/Call_for_Chapters.html
The aim of the book is to bring together the expertise of people who have worked with Communities of Practice (CoPs) in authentic educational settings across the world in a convenient, internationally based, workbook for people in the field of training and education. It is anticipated that this book will act as a resource for practitioners and academics that work in the field of CoPs and education.
Prospective authors are invited to send a 500-word outline of their chapter.
Sure, I'll cobble something together. I think the experience of 9 primary schools is worthwhile, so I'll be working on my outline here, in this public blog. I'll create a new news department. I'm thinking that I should go around all the schools here, those that are using it and even those that have fallen. Since I'm not in direct contact at the coal face, no classroom of wailing kids here, best to garner opinions from teachers who blog.
Searching thumbs
I've nearly got search working on all sites. Not quite properly but near enough considering it was 3.45am and my eyes were getting bleary. I'll finish it off later today. Well, get it closer to nirvana. I want to have buttons to search news items, stories, thumbs... I'll think of more, I usually do.
When you update your home page you'll see a search field top left, and if you go to mySite.sch.uk/search you'll see more options to search across all schools or just the site you're in.
Mines's at www.walsallschools.org/search
Great for finding thumbnails, that is if you've given them a descriptive file name or subject line or filled in the description field. Now's a good time to start doing this--giving your thumbs a better name than M1234567.jpg ;-)))) You should give them very long descriptive titles, which then become the shortcuts. Thus, when people mouse over the thumb, they get a title attribute (in a light yellow box, with the title of the picture, and a message to click for full sized in new window).
Think of the day when you've a few thousand thumbs! Without long descriptive titles it's going to be hard to find the one you want to reuse.
When you update your home page you'll see a search field top left, and if you go to mySite.sch.uk/search you'll see more options to search across all schools or just the site you're in.
Mines's at www.walsallschools.org/search
Great for finding thumbnails, that is if you've given them a descriptive file name or subject line or filled in the description field. Now's a good time to start doing this--giving your thumbs a better name than M1234567.jpg ;-)))) You should give them very long descriptive titles, which then become the shortcuts. Thus, when people mouse over the thumb, they get a title attribute (in a light yellow box, with the title of the picture, and a message to click for full sized in new window).
Think of the day when you've a few thousand thumbs! Without long descriptive titles it's going to be hard to find the one you want to reuse.
