Town House, Haddington

Law Primary is a large Primary School in North Berwick. Their web site, introduced in February 2007, has grown very quickly and features a very high level of “audience participation”, attracting over 700 comments, from mainly parents and students, in its first  5 weeks.

Site URL: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/law

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John Muir House, Haddington

Details: smcnaught@eastlothian.gov.uk

It’s all very well telling people that creating a blog is straightforward - but there’s no substitute for showing them. So to demystify the process, we’ve made a short “screencast” animation that takes you through the process step by step.

The whole thing can be easily viewed in under 2 minutes - maybe under one minute if you’re in a hurry and your network connection’s fast enough.

It’s a 3MB Flash movie, so best viewed on a broadband connection.

P3 bloggers at Haddington Infant School are now each being provided with a Blogroll containing links to all 90-odd P3 student blogs across the 4 P3 classes. You can see an example here at Andrew’s blog.

Peer feedback and peer assessment are powerful formative assessment practices, and Robert Whiteside is doing this to enable these children to easily and quickly navigate backwards and forwards between one another’s blogs. This way they can practice their reading of what others have written, and use the Comments box to provide feedback or assessment.

By using blogs in this way, peer feedback and peer assessment can be used beyond the boundaries of a single class. Of course, there’s no reason why this approach cannot extend beyond the school itself. That might be of particular value in some rural primaries, where the P3 cohort, for example, is small.

There’s some background on this project on my personal blog.

Location: Prestonpans Education Centre

Time: Thursday 22nd February 2007, 4.00 to 5.30pm

Includes:

• adding audio and video to Posts and Pages
• using Plug-ins such as
  • Event Calendar
  • Democracy Poll
  • Sidebar Widgets
• managing Sidebar contents
• Using different presentation Themes

If you’ve an Exc-el / eduBuzz blog, you can now embed PowerPoint slideshows like this from SlideShare into Posts and Pages, thanks to a Plug-in from Koen.

Here’s how to do it. Read more »

This is a course about how we can make a school web site much more than just a static notice board. It will show how to use new web tools to provide a dynamic, interactive window into the life of the school.

Pencaitland Primary blog shows the sort of thing that can be done.

Details: ECS371 Making your school web site dynamic (1 of 1)

Tutor: David Gilmour

Location: Prestonpans Education Centre

Course: Introduction to Internet (ELFT)

Location: Prestonpans Education Centre

Description: ECS347 Word Processing 1 (Early Learning Forward Thinking)

Location: Prestonpans Education Centre