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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.
We'll give you all the training you'll need, support you on the phone or with email, all to make sure you get the best out of your investment.
Our killer features are:
Superb content management and blog software. Excellent Google optimisation.
An email to weblog interface, making updating your school blog a doddle.
Top draw support and feedback.
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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Thursday, 16 November 2006
Th, Nov 16, 2006Don't keep quiet
Bullying 'a culture of silence': "Many young people witness bullying at school but do not tell an adult, a survey suggests."
First time here?
We've a new product! It's a light version of our weblogs for schools. Look at the example site. It doesn't have the weblog switched on, nor are the feedback loops: the comments, the discussion group. Only authorised members can edit or upload thumbnails, or add pages. Editors add kids as members and they can create new pages to work on: at school or at home.
Look at some of the work that some 10 year olds did in Llandudno's Craig y Don. We've written a Scheme of Work ICT Unit 4A: Writing for Different Audiences (year 4) so it fits in with the curriculum.
This light product can be upgraded to the full weblog product, with the feedback on or off—at a later date. I like it on! Don't worry, we monitor all new comments and stuff, as can you—you're emailed everything that goes on the site, and nothing gets to the front page without an editor's authorisation.
This light version is a good way of having a site that's easy to look after. You don't have to rely on your ICT, a friend of the school, or any other bottleneck. You see what you want to change—staff lists, for example, and just do it. Want to add an important announcement to the front page—go ahead! Got a picture of the winning football team? Add it in a snap. Put it on the football team's page, on the front page, wherever.
There's no limits either. We had one site with 147,000 pages and 3,000 members. I didn't count how many images.
Browse our other customers, see the 'Recently updated sites' panel to the left? We've got nursery nurses emailing in a dozen or so pictures in one operation—that's such a powerful feature. We've a local bobby commenting on the local school's site. A new customer in Northern Ireland. Kids posting to the front page, in their Friday afternoon Blog Club. Lots of good stuff :-)
Look at some of the work that some 10 year olds did in Llandudno's Craig y Don. We've written a Scheme of Work ICT Unit 4A: Writing for Different Audiences (year 4) so it fits in with the curriculum.
This light product can be upgraded to the full weblog product, with the feedback on or off—at a later date. I like it on! Don't worry, we monitor all new comments and stuff, as can you—you're emailed everything that goes on the site, and nothing gets to the front page without an editor's authorisation.
This light version is a good way of having a site that's easy to look after. You don't have to rely on your ICT, a friend of the school, or any other bottleneck. You see what you want to change—staff lists, for example, and just do it. Want to add an important announcement to the front page—go ahead! Got a picture of the winning football team? Add it in a snap. Put it on the football team's page, on the front page, wherever.
There's no limits either. We had one site with 147,000 pages and 3,000 members. I didn't count how many images.
Browse our other customers, see the 'Recently updated sites' panel to the left? We've got nursery nurses emailing in a dozen or so pictures in one operation—that's such a powerful feature. We've a local bobby commenting on the local school's site. A new customer in Northern Ireland. Kids posting to the front page, in their Friday afternoon Blog Club. Lots of good stuff :-)
Walking to school?
Cars! I confess, I 'pop up' in the car. I try to get them out in time to walk up, but, I've no idea what goes wrong. It all goes to plan then.... We're going to be late unless I drive them up!
Waterloo Primary tells us that they're joining a national campaign to get kids to walk to school at least once a week.
Waterloo Primary tells us that they're joining a national campaign to get kids to walk to school at least once a week.
Outdoors all the time
Out in all weathers: secret garden nursery: "In the past year and a half, childminder Cathy Bache hasn't spent a single day indoors with any of the 17 toddlers in her care. Instead, in rain or shine, hail or snow, they spend all day every day playing in the garden, running in the woods, picnicking in the tree-house or building mud dams on the stream."
No toys only sticks, mud and leaves. Space, freedom and independence.
Brilliant. Brilliant. I was brought up in the Valleys of South Wales, and spent much of it outside. I think I can agree with this idea of teaching totally outside. Certainly I take my kids outside as much as possible, but then I'm lucky being in the wilds of Shropshire.
Pudsey's shocking news
| Pudseys' new building is drawing higher and higher numbers as word spreads, that the website is the place to see the visualisations. Donemana, a primary in Northern Ireland has an hour's training yesterday, so there's lots of member hits as I and the Head trundled through what, where, how and when. |
