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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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Superb content management and blog software. Excellent Google optimisation.
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Now, by merely typing in the text you can do it too!
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.
Try a demo or build your
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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Where all the people go
Where all the people go
VLEs, are mostly dull, mostly there's no uptake from pupils. Why? They'd rather go to Facebook, Bebo or MySpace. Why?
Because there's people there. It's all about people.
VLEs are unappealing, unsexy and unused and thusly, pretty useless, they're ridiculed and ignored. Such a huge investment in time and hopes down the drain. They look so plain, like a cardboard box. But, worse, much, much worse, there are no people there.
Think of your school, a concrete lump with corridors alive with posters, children's work, bright paint, giggling children. This is how a VLE should be.
Certainly, it should be bright, it should look fun, it should even be easy to customise, for the colours to change, for there be somewhere the pupil can scrawl their name, and their favourite band, football team or TV programme.
But mostly, there should be people!
We're not a VLE. Not in the proscriptive BECTA way. But our sites are alive with people: children and staff. There's links to other schools which are alive with people too. Photographs of children in face paint, children's own writing, children sucking ice lollies, bought by the Head. And this is just today.
And we're doing customisation (it's still in beta, but here's a sneak peak)... For the school and for the pupil. Take a look at this theme, it's a multi Christmas theme. I'm still working on the Winter one... The school would decide to switch their theme, and we'll have many different ones for different times of the year: Summer, Autumn, Eid, Easter, St. David's day... And the viewer, the child, picks and switches the background, in a CSS Zen Garden kind of way.
Fun :-)
Because there's people there. It's all about people.
VLEs are unappealing, unsexy and unused and thusly, pretty useless, they're ridiculed and ignored. Such a huge investment in time and hopes down the drain. They look so plain, like a cardboard box. But, worse, much, much worse, there are no people there.
Think of your school, a concrete lump with corridors alive with posters, children's work, bright paint, giggling children. This is how a VLE should be.
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Certainly, it should be bright, it should look fun, it should even be easy to customise, for the colours to change, for there be somewhere the pupil can scrawl their name, and their favourite band, football team or TV programme.But mostly, there should be people!
We're not a VLE. Not in the proscriptive BECTA way. But our sites are alive with people: children and staff. There's links to other schools which are alive with people too. Photographs of children in face paint, children's own writing, children sucking ice lollies, bought by the Head. And this is just today.
And we're doing customisation (it's still in beta, but here's a sneak peak)... For the school and for the pupil. Take a look at this theme, it's a multi Christmas theme. I'm still working on the Winter one... The school would decide to switch their theme, and we'll have many different ones for different times of the year: Summer, Autumn, Eid, Easter, St. David's day... And the viewer, the child, picks and switches the background, in a CSS Zen Garden kind of way.
Fun :-)
