After at least six months of not blogging I’ve decided to get back into it. I’ve made a fresh install on the website using the WordPress software. I’ll be trying it out for use with our local schools. The last time our blogs were hit heavily by the spam-bots. In the past we’ve used Lifetype – both solutions are free and open source. However, WordPress seems to have better comment management and moderation which is vitally important in a school setting.
I’m also going to try to post more often than last time! And I’ll be trying to mix things up with a few podcasts, screencasts and links to other posts and blogs about education.
We did have an active blogging community for a short time but it seems that many teachers haven’t continued blogging with their classes? I’d be interested in why this might be so?
- Is it time?
- Is it resources?
- Is it concerns over comments?
- Is it the software?
What does blogging offer? Perhaps Will Richardson can help …
In the meantime checkout Irymple South Primary School’s blog. It is most the active set of ‘teacher blogs’ in the Sunraysia Mallee Schools Network.
August 31st, 2006 at 2:43 pm
what makes a blog worth visiting? — try this
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html
inspires me anyway
and she’s not even a “teacher” per se
Rob
August 31st, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Thanks Rob … some very good ideas, especially the “Learning Blog”! I think this might be the way to go, as my experience tells me that the implications of Web 2.0, RSS, podcasts, wikis etc etc to education, are very, very foreign to many of our teachers.