So I am on to explaining about the second of three great conversations I had last week with colleagues at school.

Since starting my blog I wanted to draw more of my colleagues into the experience and I set my own targets for this, well I am a little late on it but I have still managed it. :)

I had planned to support Claire and Rick, who work in Year 3, set up their blogs, but I decided to open out the session to other staff members and I had lots of takers! It was a chance to follow on the session I held before Christmas which was a great success and to tell them about setting up and getting on with the writing. After all that ‘s what it is, an opportunity to write.

So we had Year 1, 2, 3, 4 and Year 6 teachers there – I had a meeting with Pete and Cathy about blogging the day before as they couldn’t make it, so that accounts for Year 5. So from a voluntary session I covered all of the Ks1-2 classes, to me that is very promising and I must say a big thankyou to those who attended and supported the session.

I introduced learnerblogs.org and explained the other platforms that are available to blog, the importance of getting running and just to write, I broke it into 3 simple sequential stages of usage that seemed pretty useful.

  1. Write together as a class using admin login on class blog.
  2. Assign children unique logins to write individually on the class blog.
  3. Children have their own blog to publish to and manage.

For many early years teachers it seemed that they would remain at 1 as their usage would be primarily writing together.

I am really pleased to see colleagues at school embracing the technology and many thanks to those who have already commented on the priestsic3 blog, I will keep you all posted of any more newborns in the ward.