Tag Archives: Blogs
School’s out Friday
This animation from Guy Collins made me smile. Do you ever have to hold your tongue as you watch people search the net? I know that I’ve spent time with students explaining how to use quotation marks around phrases and … Continue reading
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Meet Cartoon James
The other week, I received an email from James, the brother of a student from my school. James contacted me because his sister Kate had given him some advice about what he needed to do if he wanted to pursue … Continue reading
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Style Rookie – pure genius
Last week I wrote a post detailing my changing thinking about Blogging with students. Andromeda left a comment on that post pointing me towards a blog called Style Rookie. She said this; The author started it two years ago, when … Continue reading
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Blogging with students
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called ‘Blogs for Classroom use‘. At the time, I’d recently started blogging and I was in the super enthusiastic stage. Evangelic really, convinced that everyone should be doing what I was … Continue reading
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Blogs – how to set one up and write a post that gets you noticed (maybe!)
I created this presentation for Students 2.0. Blogging can be a very powerful tool for young people who want to explore their interests and connect to others with similar bent. All too often I come across student blogs that are … Continue reading
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Blogging – two years in
Today, it’s two years since I first began writing this blog. Quite honestly, writing has changed everything about how I conduct my life. To some extent I’m driven; when you start something and then discover you have an audience, you … Continue reading
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Why blogging matters
I often try to articulate why I think blogging has been such a transformative action for me. Seth Godin and Tom Peters have articulated it brilliantly in 1 minute and 37 seconds. They are both marketers, but what they say is … Continue reading
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The Robert Pattinson effect
Cover of Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition) An interesting thing happened on the way to building readership of our school library blog. One of our staff wrote a post about Robert Pattinson. (You know him, he plays Edward in this film that’s … Continue reading
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Theory into practice – making it meaningful in the school library.
Image via Wikipedia This year, we’re trying to make Web 2.0 more meaningful in our School Library. Last year we moved most of our pathfinders over to wiki format to encourage collaboration and input into the development of resources to … Continue reading
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Why do we blog?
I’ve mentioned recently that my friend Nina has started writing a blog focusing on the early years classroom. She’s doing amazingly well, but already the questions have started. Why are you doing this? What do you think will come of … Continue reading
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