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We are a weblog or blog company, supplying schools with sites that non-tech Heads can maintain and can promote their school.
Kids too, can create their own content and leave comments on classroom buddies' content—group learning by doing, if you like.
Receiving comments from any part of the world on their own content is a powerful motivator for children. Learning can be a conversation, publishing one's own content and having others comment on it is a two-way conversation.
Of course, we monitor all this—as do you (you and yours receive email from your site telling you what has happened).
If you require, we can switch such openness off—entirely. Such sites are then one-way.
Kids too, can create their own content and leave comments on classroom buddies' content—group learning by doing, if you like.
Receiving comments from any part of the world on their own content is a powerful motivator for children. Learning can be a conversation, publishing one's own content and having others comment on it is a two-way conversation.
Of course, we monitor all this—as do you (you and yours receive email from your site telling you what has happened).
If you require, we can switch such openness off—entirely. Such sites are then one-way.
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Please email us or leave a comment by clicking on the greyed out comment link below any news item on the home page's weblog.
You could even become a member and contribute to the discussion group or even create news items for approval to the front page. More details on the member's how to page.
Please email us or leave a comment by clicking on the greyed out comment link below any news item on the home page's weblog.
You could even become a member and contribute to the discussion group or even create news items for approval to the front page. More details on the member's how to page.
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What is this?
First: we are a weblog and content management system supplier for schools. This site is a demo site which is rebuilt to its virgin state periodically. Want to log in and have a go? Email me or phone 01952 271 671 and ask for user/passwords.You can download our technical user training manual, though if 7 year olds can create web content, we know non-tech Heads can too. We support you on the phone, with texts to your mobile—as you're working and with short over the phone training lessons—not that you need much to get you going. We also monitor and mentor. Oh, and you can use your ELCs, if you're in England.
A quick how to: once you've logged in, look for the Editors only menu at the very, very top. Hit the news link, then create a new news item. Add a title, and some description text. Then hit the create news item button. You're now in preview mode. Keep editing till you're happy. Then hit the post to front page button. To add pictures use the Editors only ==> thumbnails. Then paste your shortcut into... Well, anywhere really :-)
About the curriculum and us
See our case studies of how our sites support the curriculum, in particular the ICT KS2. This will help you understand how to use our product in the classroom. It's essentially a best practice document.See also our version of the Scheme of Work ICT Unit 4A: Writing for Different Audiences (year 4). In particular, you could cut to the chase and see the integrated task(s). To support this series of lesson plans, we have many flash based 'how tos' which demonstrate particular operations.
Don't forget to see what other 10 year olds have done using this system!
Fr, Jan 11, 2008Overview introduction
I'm often asked for more information on our services. I never know what
to write, and always end up writing far too much. So, I thought I'd
standardise wot I write...
Updating is a doddle. Anyone, anywhere, so long as they have the correct rights. Kids can work at home, and have. I've done it from the beach, sending email off my mobile phone, with pictures and videos attached. Schools have blog clubs, adding news items can link in with lesson themes, writing for different audiences is own my enthusiasm. I'd like to see roving reporters in the playground. Small news is big news for little people.
Our costs are simple and public, £3 per pupil up to a max. of £990. Per year, thereafter: £1 per pupil up to a max. of £200. We're on Becta's list so you can find out about our prices, and reviews there, and if you're in England you can use your ELCs.
We totally look after your site while you update and have fun. [Warning:] it can get addictive and a little competitive.
We take your prospectus, stuff off your old site, some pictures, logo, and design you a nice look fitting your whims.
Take a look around the other sites, see how easily stuff gets put on? Content Management for the rest of us. Feedback from parents and ex pupils is full of praise. These are not just ordinary sites, these are are living, breathing, active sites. With high traffic and detailed stats.
Donemana, Northern Ireland, is such a small school, yet they have the most active comments! The Head posts the most but other teachers help out too. Jemma the nursery nurse at Bodnant Infants, Prestatyn, whacks 30 pictures in, in one go, three, four or five times a week—sometimes much more—she wouldn't do it unless it was easy. She's going to add video in the next few days. With Walsall Wood: the comments from parents addressed to their children on a weekend adventure holiday are priceless.
Fun is what we're here for; we work hard to make it easy for you.
All my customers will say good things about me. I count all my customers as friends, albeit distant ones.
I listen: fix and modify features. Add power, make things easier, take out process steps. We've recently added multi themes, seasonal, high day and holiday designs. Just a bit of fun.
We're totally tooled up as web 2.0. We were there at the start of web 2.0, way back in 1999, when we helped test RSS. We were the second blog platform, ever and were the first with podcasting and in-built aggregators. We are totally Google friendly, respectful and have good Page Rank scores. Been there, got the t-shirt.
There's two ways to add content. Through the web, which many of my schools choose as the sole way of updating, or, and once you've done this your eyes will pop out, by merely emailing in: 30 pictures; Word, PDF, Excel docs; even small videos.
Rob, the ICT in Glendale, Nuneaton, Warwickshire adds pages full of pictures via email directly into the depths of their site's structure. Simple!
You could set up your secretary to email in newsletters & letters home to the right place too... As Stuart Cox the Deputy Head at Walsall Wood has done.
An ex grammar school in Leeds, has two sites, one for video for the media department and one for as the main site. (I wish I could get him to let the children 'have a go.')
Waterloo in Tameside have a large past pupils section. It's good to hear about school life during the Second World War. I think children learn lots from such real stories.
Updating is a doddle. Anyone, anywhere, so long as they have the correct rights. Kids can work at home, and have. I've done it from the beach, sending email off my mobile phone, with pictures and videos attached. Schools have blog clubs, adding news items can link in with lesson themes, writing for different audiences is own my enthusiasm. I'd like to see roving reporters in the playground. Small news is big news for little people.
Our costs are simple and public, £3 per pupil up to a max. of £990. Per year, thereafter: £1 per pupil up to a max. of £200. We're on Becta's list so you can find out about our prices, and reviews there, and if you're in England you can use your ELCs.
We totally look after your site while you update and have fun. [Warning:] it can get addictive and a little competitive.
We take your prospectus, stuff off your old site, some pictures, logo, and design you a nice look fitting your whims.
Take a look around the other sites, see how easily stuff gets put on? Content Management for the rest of us. Feedback from parents and ex pupils is full of praise. These are not just ordinary sites, these are are living, breathing, active sites. With high traffic and detailed stats.
Donemana, Northern Ireland, is such a small school, yet they have the most active comments! The Head posts the most but other teachers help out too. Jemma the nursery nurse at Bodnant Infants, Prestatyn, whacks 30 pictures in, in one go, three, four or five times a week—sometimes much more—she wouldn't do it unless it was easy. She's going to add video in the next few days. With Walsall Wood: the comments from parents addressed to their children on a weekend adventure holiday are priceless.
Fun is what we're here for; we work hard to make it easy for you.
All my customers will say good things about me. I count all my customers as friends, albeit distant ones.
I listen: fix and modify features. Add power, make things easier, take out process steps. We've recently added multi themes, seasonal, high day and holiday designs. Just a bit of fun.
We're totally tooled up as web 2.0. We were there at the start of web 2.0, way back in 1999, when we helped test RSS. We were the second blog platform, ever and were the first with podcasting and in-built aggregators. We are totally Google friendly, respectful and have good Page Rank scores. Been there, got the t-shirt.
There's two ways to add content. Through the web, which many of my schools choose as the sole way of updating, or, and once you've done this your eyes will pop out, by merely emailing in: 30 pictures; Word, PDF, Excel docs; even small videos.
Rob, the ICT in Glendale, Nuneaton, Warwickshire adds pages full of pictures via email directly into the depths of their site's structure. Simple!
You could set up your secretary to email in newsletters & letters home to the right place too... As Stuart Cox the Deputy Head at Walsall Wood has done.
An ex grammar school in Leeds, has two sites, one for video for the media department and one for as the main site. (I wish I could get him to let the children 'have a go.')
Waterloo in Tameside have a large past pupils section. It's good to hear about school life during the Second World War. I think children learn lots from such real stories.
Su, Feb 19, 2006Welcome to your new Schools site
Congratulations and welcome to your new school site. This first news item is set as yesterday, your next new one will be today.
- To start posting and editing this site please log in. Your email address and password are the same as the ones used to create this website. Or, you will have received an emailed invite with those details.
- After logging in, click the Edit link at the end of this post to edit this text (you'll see it once you've logged in). You may want to delete this news item, go to your discussion group, find it, open it, there's a yellow admin box at the bottom. But, I'd say keep it. It'll scroll off in to the archives soon enough.
- To create a new post, click the News command in the Editors only menu at the top of this page (only logged in editors can see the Editors only menu).
- Common newbie warning: in Editors only: don't use pictures, you want to use thumbnails, they're better. And, to add some thing to the front page, you need a new news item, not a new discussion group topic. Different things.
- This is your site. You can change almost everything about it, including its name, appearance, membership and bulletin features. The Prefs command in the Editors only menu is the place to start.
- There's also a PDF for you to download. It's a handbook, tip sheet and fast start. Training Manual at 100 pages.
- Finally, please bookmark this page. Be sure you can find it again. Any problems call me on 01952 271 671
