No Edubuzz Blog format for Outdoor Education website! April 13, 2008
Posted by Bill in : Outdoor Learning , trackback
At a meeting on a Friday the OE team decided they would not change the East Lothian Outdoor Education Service website to an Edubuzz interactive format that many of the schools in East Lothian currently use. I am of course a wee bit bias as I use the Edubuzz Wordpress format already and like it, but I wonder what our users(You) think? Click on the edubuzz examples below and the check out the East Lothian Outdoor Education Site and then leave a comment please.
East Lothian Outdoor Education Service
Thanks for your comments.
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The main thing, of course, is to have a site that does what you want. If the existing one does that, then there’s no reason to change.
There are definitely potential benefits from using a weblog to make it a bit easier for people to keep in touch with what’s happening in EL Outdoor Ed, and the services you offer.
For example, we could enable email subscriptions, as Preston Lodge are doing, to bring latest news, course updates and so on to your client group and drive traffic to the site.
Don’t get the idea, though, that edubuzz is a one size fits all “it’s a blog or nothing” solution. The idea is to evolve it to offer the best service we can to support education in East Lothian, and enable new learning benefits. If that means changing what’s on offer, we’ll do that.
I’d like to have a chat about whether you need something different, maybe we can have a chat some time?
Meantime, I’ve made http://edubuzz.org/blogs/outdooreducation (and /outdoor education) redirect to the existing site.
An alternative route is to set up a wiki which allows all registered users to create and alter posts, make comments, add photos etc. This approach might allow more flexibility and the East Lothian “outdoor community” could take part in the site.
A recent example here http://eastlinton.wetpaint.com/
Alastair/David
Thanks for your comments I think all of your points are valid and I agree. The need to evolve it from an already successfully site and let it support community and education. I will pop to the edubuzz meeting tomorrow, hopefully we can have a chat.
Great Idea Alastair, I like the idea of more service user input.
Bill
As a wiki it might get more frequent updates and traffic, while as a moderator you can still maintain control.
I have set up http://eastlothioanoutdooreducation.wetpaint.com/ to see how it goes & to stay in touch with the Outdoor Education scene a wee bit.
If anyone wants to join in let me know.
Alastair