I have been working on looking at what a number of local authorities are doing with blogging in education. There are a number of notable examples:
East Lothian Council - a number of staff including a head of service
Aberdeen City Council - Primary 7 pupil blogs
Argyll and Bute - SSDN mentos will be blogging once they have been appointed in the autumn.
It's great to see what can be done with a bit of effort!
Thursday, June 01, 2006
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Hi Gordon,
thanks for the mention of Argyll & Bute! We have quite a number of individuals and groups blogging here. Some were very early adopters with the 'BBC Island Blogging' scheme, and others have come onboard since.
I think it is vital to have LA 'buy-in'. I am fortunate enough to have people in high places happy to listen to what I have to say, and it has been very advantageous of late to pull together a very simple policy. We all need to communicate far more on a national level to raise the awareness of things though - too often it is classroom teachers that want to make use of emerging technologies, but those at authority level don't know enough about them.
Hi Gordon,
thanks for the mention of Argyll & Bute! We have quite a number of individuals and groups blogging here. Some were very early adopters with the 'BBC Island Blogging' scheme, and others have come onboard since.
I think it is vital to have LA 'buy-in'. I am fortunate enough to have people in high places happy to listen to what I have to say, and it has been very advantageous of late to pull together a very simple policy. We all need to communicate far more on a national level to raise the awareness of things though - too often it is classroom teachers that want to make use of emerging technologies, but those at authority level don't know enough about them.
Hello Gordon
I think this is a most interesting area, because students are going to develop as bloggers whether we in education approve or do not. I imgaine that student bloggers will create their own communities that help learning in a way that emailing has not. For me, as I begin to get interested, I wonder where there is a discussion among educators about the potential here and what we can do to support it.
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