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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Monday, 17 March 2008
Mo, Mar 17, 2008Other schools have news too
 | I love it when we get so many updates in one day—last Friday. It should have been ten, but one school created several news items then left them hanging in the pending news items. When you update and children have finished reading your site, they love to travel onto other schools to see what's been happening there. At least this is what I've learned from anecdotal evidence from schools and the information I see from the stats. When I was a kid I had no idea what went on at other schools. I barely even registered that there were other schools outside of my universe. I know my daughter, 9 years old, loves to see what's been happening in other schools. She's fascinated. Though I remove the little 'recently updayed' widget from some schools' website when requested—particularly secondary schools, I'll always, always agrue the case for it to stay. It's good to be in a community. Sure, the school is it's own little community, but also, it's in the wider community of schools around it. Here, on the web those nearby schools maybe in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales or England and the distance adds an extra level of exoticism. I've always hoped that schools would mingle. That one school's pupils would post comments on another, for friendships to be made. It hasn't happened yet, though there is competitiveness to stay in the list of recently updated, to not drop out. But this comes from the people who manage the sites: the Heads, the ICTs, the secretaries. I love being in the middle of all this, but I would like more cross posting, more help, more acknowledgement passed from one school to another. So, if you do go to another school, just post a comment somewhere to say you've been, you've read, you've liked and you're thankful and you're from 'such-and-such' school. It'll make a lot of difference, I know! |
