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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Tuesday, 03 October 2006
Tu, Oct 3, 2006DJing the school assembly
Bodnant had their harvest festival. But they didn't sing We plough the fields and scatter. That's my favourite Autumn hymn, takes me back to when I was a nipper. They promised to sing it next year (and I hope invite me). But that's too far off. So I suggested to them that they start podcasting their morning assembly (as I suggested to Craig y Don).
Taking this to it's logical conclusion, I could then email in my morning's request (as could others) and the Head could announce to the morning's assembly, "this one's for Steve, who emailed in to say, he hasn't heard it since he was six, and it'll bring tears to his eyes... All together now...
We plough the fields and scatter..."
Wouldn't that be ace? Me thinks I'll nag them to death till this happens :-)
Taking this to it's logical conclusion, I could then email in my morning's request (as could others) and the Head could announce to the morning's assembly, "this one's for Steve, who emailed in to say, he hasn't heard it since he was six, and it'll bring tears to his eyes... All together now...
We plough the fields and scatter..."
Wouldn't that be ace? Me thinks I'll nag them to death till this happens :-)
Word docs are bad
Please, if you've got a school website, here, or of your own making, please, please don't put Word docs on your site!
Why?
Either:
Why?
- Word is an expensive program/application
- Many people don't have the means to open Word docs
- Even if the surfer has it, they've still to download and open the document
- Nobody is that bothered to do this
Either:
- create a new webpage and paste the news into that (this depends on how you make your web pages, obviously. Word does have an export to HTML funtion, it's buggy though)
- or, convert the Word or Publisher document to a PDF
Us and them
State links annoy private schools: "...ministers were trying to "hijack" the brand of independent schools "on the cheap". [Private schools] called for a formal service contract which recognised the contribution independent schools made to the national economy."
The contribution like the brain drain in Bristol?
BBC Scotland: Feelings
This in from my aggregator, from The Excellent Primary Resources blog: BBC Scotland: Feelings "The new site from BBC Scotland has been designed to cover areas of PSHE for primary students. It's a very attractively put together site using cartoons and real photos together with lively audio. Students are invited to take a trip down to the virtual park and meet some of the characters wandering around."
Scottish accents—obviously. Great graphics though!
Craig y Don crash through the 1,000 hits per day barrier
Walsall Schools: Most read yesterday
As an update to the project: I've built half of the software. Next is the part which the Head/teachers see, where they upload the ads and control them. And the newer graphics/theme which makes room for the ads.
Rankings compiled on 2/10/06; 11:59:22 PM.
OK, OK! I know they've got to sell all that inventory, but I do think it's possible, especially since it's a school, and readers will have a positive affinity to companies that advertise on school sites. See the parent traffic at night? Now if there was some local news on the site too, perhaps if Craig y Don could get a local councilor or other big beanie burgher. Or, if a member of the staff wrote about something from the local paper, some nice an contentious (a troll) I'd expect those parents to come back again, not just to see their kid's work but to gather gossip about their community... Gossip :-) This is what parents do at the school gates. We just want to harness this to the school's advantage. Keeping it clean and non-litigious, is easy. These parents are doing this anyway, let's use it and channel it! | | Wow! Now you can see the power of posting by kids. Traffic goes through the roof! Think of all those potential advertisers, quite happy to be in front of 10 year olds' noses (and their parents). Remember, if the site is carrying £108 CPM (cost per thousand) of ads per page, that's £108 x 1.51 = £163.08 — in one day! Hourly Hits from yesterday evening...
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