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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Friday, 12 October 2007
Fr, Oct 12, 2007Stressed primary
 BBC News | Study reveals stressed out 7-11 year-olds Guardian Unlimited, UK - 6 hours ago Today's research will feed into the review, which reports in a year's time and is expected to have a significant influence on education policy. ... The primary cause for concern Independent Children being robbed of their innocence by 'guns, gangs and ... This is London Pressure of tests ‘means primary school pupils lose their childhood’ Times Online BBC News - Times Educational Supplement all 101 news articles |
The above is lifted from Google News. Should be enough links there to keep you going.
My children caught this on the way out the door this morning. It was children speaking on the news that caught Esme's eye.
I asked what they were worried about?
"Nothing." Said Esme.
Then she saw the little girl speaking of members of her family being murdered.
"Yes, I'm worried about that too." She said in empathy.
I wondered if children were really worried. If they were merely feeding back what the questioners expected?
From The Graniard. "Researchers found that pupils in schools which tackled the problems they worried about, such as those with eco-clubs and recycling schemes to teach children about environmental problems, were happier.
"Where schools had started engaging children with global and local realities as aspects of their education they were noticeably more upbeat. In several schools children were involved in environmental projects and the sense that 'we can do something about it' seemed to make all the difference," they write."
Oh dear! I fear we're all done for. "Earth, 2100 AD. Atmospheric CO2 has doubled to 1000 ppm. From
shore to the horizon, there is but an unending purple colour -- a vast,
flat, oily purple. No fish break its surface, no birds. We are under a
pale green sky, and it has the smell of death and poison." Mass extinctions of the past have a bearing on our future.
I'm stressed!
How to of the item below
The email I sent to create the item below is in this thumbnail.
One picture and a bunch of text. Added the size I wanted the image to be, knowing that 475 pixels is is as wide as it will go. After that you'll lose some to the right. And I wanted some text to flow down the right edge.
I added the [[community]] department too, to the subject line.
HTML? Well, I know it well since I started writing it when it first came out! Yip! I was there before there were picture tags! It was all just text, back in the day.
I use a speell checker [sic] Called Spell Catcher Plus, I've recommended it many times. Go get it! It's got a shortcut editor. You type your shortcut and it expands it for you. Good for boiler-plating. Maybe for signature files. Auto correcting spelling. And... Writing HTML I type href and it expands to <a href = ""></a> ready for my links. I type bold and italic links as I write. Sometimes also add unordered list too. I've also set up templates on my mobile phone, for double line spaces and links for my blog.
But then I'm geeky like this.
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An email to blog ready to go
I added the [[community]] department too, to the subject line.
HTML? Well, I know it well since I started writing it when it first came out! Yip! I was there before there were picture tags! It was all just text, back in the day.
I use a speell checker [sic] Called Spell Catcher Plus, I've recommended it many times. Go get it! It's got a shortcut editor. You type your shortcut and it expands it for you. Good for boiler-plating. Maybe for signature files. Auto correcting spelling. And... Writing HTML I type href and it expands to <a href = ""></a> ready for my links. I type bold and italic links as I write. Sometimes also add unordered list too. I've also set up templates on my mobile phone, for double line spaces and links for my blog.
But then I'm geeky like this.
New customer blogs well
A pair of marvelous posts from the newbie in Doncaster, Southfield Primary.
I like the two pictures: one of the teacher and one with the class, it's a neat idea.
She did these the old fashioned way. Uploading a thumb, copying its shortcut into a news item, writing some text, adding a thumb. It's a nice way of working. You get to tell the story slowly. As you're waiting for the next thumb to upload you're already thinking of the next passage of text.
Not sure how long it took her, though I was watching the notification email begin to come in at 1:20pm yesterday till about 3:30pm. I guess a break as the children left school. Another start at 4:05pm till 4:15pm another break. Another start at 5:00pm right through till 7:00pm.
Sure, I spy some gaps in there. Perhaps to go home, make some tea, find more picture, tell hubby what she's up to... She did say, as we texted each other as she was working, that she went off for a good old surf around the other schools, looking for ideas. And collecting the pictures was another break.
Her next task in her master blogger course it to cut that time radically! The email to weblog will be her friend :-)
Though it's a different form of story writing. With one picture it works nice (and the text flows around the picture neatly). One picture is enough to tell a story. But these days, likely there are dozens of eager faces, each with cheesy grins, good enough to show the world. Fair's fair! You've got to upload them all. In these cases, email to weblogging comes into its own. Bulk rename them. Bulk attach them. And a nice paragraph explaining the story atop them.
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They said they wanted it bright.
I like the two pictures: one of the teacher and one with the class, it's a neat idea.
She did these the old fashioned way. Uploading a thumb, copying its shortcut into a news item, writing some text, adding a thumb. It's a nice way of working. You get to tell the story slowly. As you're waiting for the next thumb to upload you're already thinking of the next passage of text.
Not sure how long it took her, though I was watching the notification email begin to come in at 1:20pm yesterday till about 3:30pm. I guess a break as the children left school. Another start at 4:05pm till 4:15pm another break. Another start at 5:00pm right through till 7:00pm.
Sure, I spy some gaps in there. Perhaps to go home, make some tea, find more picture, tell hubby what she's up to... She did say, as we texted each other as she was working, that she went off for a good old surf around the other schools, looking for ideas. And collecting the pictures was another break.
Her next task in her master blogger course it to cut that time radically! The email to weblog will be her friend :-)
Though it's a different form of story writing. With one picture it works nice (and the text flows around the picture neatly). One picture is enough to tell a story. But these days, likely there are dozens of eager faces, each with cheesy grins, good enough to show the world. Fair's fair! You've got to upload them all. In these cases, email to weblogging comes into its own. Bulk rename them. Bulk attach them. And a nice paragraph explaining the story atop them.
