Ideas for blogging
Your blog can be a way of holding up a mirror to your class or school. Almost everything that takes place in the busy primary school classroom could be reflected in the blog. Here’s just a few ideas to get you thinking:
• A daily diary for a science experiment over long period e.g. a diary of the sunflowers with experiment notes, scanned observation drawings, photographs, measurements and results.
• A gallery of artwork – scanned or digitally photographed.
• A list favourite and appropriate links to other blogs and sites. This, to use the jargon, is called a Blogroll. The blogroll could be provide sources of information that could help children when they are rising to the exciting challenges you have set for homework.
• Work of the day/week/month – scan or digitally photograph hand written work or a upload a digital version
• Set homework tasks – children respond to challenges with the teacher moderating and publishing responses
• Create an ongoing class novel
• A poetry anthology with recordings of the bards themselves reading their epic tales.
• One of my favourite books (*A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens) features a character who begins to challenge herself to do more and more daring activities in her mundane life, by writing a diary of what she was going to do tomorrow. A simple use of a blog could be to herald what the lessons in the next few days are going to be about. Parents and children can share some research, or a clearer understanding of objectives, or even offer ideas and resources.
• Lunch time supervisors could broadcast the menu for the week (comments could express a constructive review of the lumps in the custard!)