Comments on: Our Class Blog: Help or Hindrance

By: Karyn Romeis

Karyn Romeis — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:31:48 +0000

Hi Tom – I think it’s great that you are making this sort of effort with your class. I only wish my own kids were given the same opportunities at school. The interaction with the children on the other side of the world is a wonderfully simple, practical way for the children to become part of the global village. Do you know if any of the kids have exchanged msn or myspace details with their counterparts abroad?
Karyn

By: John

John — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:57:47 +0000

Hi Tom,
A help obviously;-)
so far the changes are not measurable, we would need some sort of control which is a bit hard in the messy world of real classrooms.
As to scratching the surface,you seem to be scratching pretty hard.
I think that audience and purpose are just going to be the first steps in class/pupil blogging the next and possible most important is the conversation, like yours with the allstars. This will need a bit of behind the scenes planning if it is to fit into an already overfilled school day, I’ve been running on serendipity for a while but it is probably time for the next wee step. I would have loved my class to join in with your long poem, but it just didn’t fit into the pre christmas rush, it would be great for a few schools to be working on similar poems at the same time with a bit of foreknowledge.

By: tbarrett

tbarrett — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:27:59 +0000

Hi Linda – many thanks for your comment, I am pleased that it may help. You are very welcome to use what part of the post you need elsewhere, just so long as you link back to my main blog address. Please let me know when and where it appears.
Tom

By: Linda Bilsborrow

Linda Bilsborrow — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:03:53 +0000

This is a very persausive argument. I’d like to be able to, not just reference this post but, copy the text from “I am positive about having a class blog” into a blog which I intend to use as a document to convince people in my authority that we should be allowed to use them.
The ‘people’ that I refer to are not particularly IT literate and I’d like to use the text in the blog to show people’s thoughts and not just link to them.