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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Tu, Jan 23, 2007The personal is political
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon drinking coffee and nattering and blogging with Helen the Head and Jemma the nursery nurse at Bodnant. Brilliant afternoon :-)
Besides the excellent blog items we posted and techniques, we discussed mixing more with other schools, and getting more political.
Mixing and cross pollination
Helen confirmed that she does use the blog radar, the list of recently updated sites to see what others are doing on their sites and to be inspired. And, I confirmed to her that other schools also check the radar, which we saw, then, in the referers.
What I'd like more of is more comments posted on each others' sites, as just a way of saying 'hello, read you item, it's nice.' Doesn't need to be too in depth but it means so much to the writer to really know that there are others reading their items. This is so important. After all, who are you writing for? Is it the parents? Your staff? Other schools in our network? Or just anyone anonymous and unknown?
For my part, when I write, I usually have some one in mind. Usually, that person changes on each paragraph, certainly each blog item.
Getting more political
Your blog is a political platform. And since getting out of bed in the morning is supposed to be a political act, blogging too is a political act. You can choose to be revolutionary or to roll over with the status quo.
As you get more jiggy with it, as your blog voice develops, your authority increases. You have an audience. You have power.
How you use that power, if you use it is your personal choice.
I have a dream that all schools will not be judged by their SATs results but by the content of their blogs.
I have a dream that one day all of the UK's Heads will rise up and realise their true strength. I hold this to be self evident, that all Heads gathered together will create a sound so loud that it will shatter pompous politicians.
I have a dream today.
(YouTube of MLK's speech.)
Besides the excellent blog items we posted and techniques, we discussed mixing more with other schools, and getting more political.
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Mixing and cross pollination
Helen confirmed that she does use the blog radar, the list of recently updated sites to see what others are doing on their sites and to be inspired. And, I confirmed to her that other schools also check the radar, which we saw, then, in the referers.
What I'd like more of is more comments posted on each others' sites, as just a way of saying 'hello, read you item, it's nice.' Doesn't need to be too in depth but it means so much to the writer to really know that there are others reading their items. This is so important. After all, who are you writing for? Is it the parents? Your staff? Other schools in our network? Or just anyone anonymous and unknown?
For my part, when I write, I usually have some one in mind. Usually, that person changes on each paragraph, certainly each blog item.
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Getting more political
Your blog is a political platform. And since getting out of bed in the morning is supposed to be a political act, blogging too is a political act. You can choose to be revolutionary or to roll over with the status quo.
As you get more jiggy with it, as your blog voice develops, your authority increases. You have an audience. You have power.
How you use that power, if you use it is your personal choice.
I have a dream that all schools will not be judged by their SATs results but by the content of their blogs.
I have a dream that one day all of the UK's Heads will rise up and realise their true strength. I hold this to be self evident, that all Heads gathered together will create a sound so loud that it will shatter pompous politicians.
I have a dream today.
(YouTube of MLK's speech.)
Lots in our little world
On Sunday the Deputy Head at Rough Hay went racing at Silverstone! Brilliant little post from her mobile phone, and a great demo of mobile blogging. These things are nice for children to see—teachers have a life outside of school. (Drive carefully!)
More catching up with the lessons at Waterloo. First we have class 10 doing dancing.
Then we have class 8 doing sound control. Great, neat photojournalism.
More catching up with the lessons at Waterloo. First we have class 10 doing dancing.
Then we have class 8 doing sound control. Great, neat photojournalism.
Searching schools
It maybe a little known trick, but with Google, you can restrict your searching by domain. Since there are many good school sites out there in the wild, despite what I say about the bad ones, with some excellent resources or links to good resources, wouldn't it be fab if we could find them!
It's actually fairly easy to search all uk schools. Rather search the domain sch.uk.
In Google add the string site: sch.uk to your search.
Or, go to advanced search and add sch.uk to the box.
It's actually fairly easy to search all uk schools. Rather search the domain sch.uk.
In Google add the string site: sch.uk to your search.
Or, go to advanced search and add sch.uk to the box.
