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I'm going to reach out to all our schools, to all our ICT teachers. A pet peeve of mine is when my children come home buzzin' about a web site. "Can we use the computer, daddy?"
They can't spell it. They can't pronounce it properly. I can't find it in Google. We're all disappointed.
I see many emails going through our system asking for links. Here's one from yesterday:
Pushy parents? Whatever, they want to work at home there are thousands of pages out in the wild Internet that can help, but they need some direction.
So, this is what I propose. Each teacher adds a link to a site that they're working on to their school's site. A little description of the page and what age the class is. They add it to a new department called, "Home working."
Now, this is simple to do. It's called auto blogging, the teacher merely highlights some text on the page they want to link to. Hit a bookmark and viola... A new page opens, it's the new news item page, all the fields are properly filled in with the title of the page, link, the text you highlighted. All ready for you to edit and add some more text of your own.
The instructions on how to add a bookmark are on the pending news items page. (Editors only: ==> News)
This is super fast. My daughter's been doing it on her site. She's just turned 9.
But... And here's the cleaver bit. 20 schools, maybe 4 teachers in each school doing this, maybe twice a week. (I'd there'll be far more.)
That adds up to 160 links a week.
What I'll do is aggregate these links, and add box to the side of your front page which takes the most recent ones. I'll also add another page to your site which lists them all.
Thus, we've got some larger schools, some very small schools, some lazier schools, some busier schools. Some Welsh schools, Northern Irish, some inner cities with cultural differences, infants and primaries.
Each will have a fairly good set of links for parents and children to browse at home.
Remember, send them away and they come back more often.
Coming soon!
# Posted by steve hooker at 11/10/07; 1:17:47 PM to the Community dept.
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They can't spell it. They can't pronounce it properly. I can't find it in Google. We're all disappointed.
I see many emails going through our system asking for links. Here's one from yesterday:
Hi
Great web site, but it might be nice to put on it about the curriculum and ways you can help your child at home. I am keen to help my daughter to improve her school skills and any ideas would be gratefully received.
Libby
Great web site, but it might be nice to put on it about the curriculum and ways you can help your child at home. I am keen to help my daughter to improve her school skills and any ideas would be gratefully received.
Libby
Pushy parents? Whatever, they want to work at home there are thousands of pages out in the wild Internet that can help, but they need some direction.
So, this is what I propose. Each teacher adds a link to a site that they're working on to their school's site. A little description of the page and what age the class is. They add it to a new department called, "Home working."
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Now, this is simple to do. It's called auto blogging, the teacher merely highlights some text on the page they want to link to. Hit a bookmark and viola... A new page opens, it's the new news item page, all the fields are properly filled in with the title of the page, link, the text you highlighted. All ready for you to edit and add some more text of your own.
The instructions on how to add a bookmark are on the pending news items page. (Editors only: ==> News)
This is super fast. My daughter's been doing it on her site. She's just turned 9.
But... And here's the cleaver bit. 20 schools, maybe 4 teachers in each school doing this, maybe twice a week. (I'd there'll be far more.)
That adds up to 160 links a week.
What I'll do is aggregate these links, and add box to the side of your front page which takes the most recent ones. I'll also add another page to your site which lists them all.
Thus, we've got some larger schools, some very small schools, some lazier schools, some busier schools. Some Welsh schools, Northern Irish, some inner cities with cultural differences, infants and primaries.
Each will have a fairly good set of links for parents and children to browse at home.
Remember, send them away and they come back more often.
Coming soon!
# Posted by steve hooker at 11/10/07; 1:17:47 PM to the Community dept.
Discuss Comment [0]
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