Yesterday blog number 1000 was created for a P7 student at the small rural Innerwick Primary School.
It was part of a set of 7 for the P7 members of Lindy Lynn’s composite P4/5/6/7 class, reflecting the increasing use of blogs to provide web publishing tools to individual students. The blogs will be used by the P7s for a project to reflect on their time at Innerwick, and the group are full of ideas!
Staff are also talking about the possibility offered to get some collaborative work going with other feeder primaries in the Dunbar Grammar School cluster, with the aim of helping the children to get to know some other students who’ll be joining them at the much larger secondary after the summer.
In another sign of the times, due to staff pressures, the P7 group were trained in a 3-hour session yesterday morning, without their class teacher, in how to use the blogs, and - not surprisingly - picked it up very quickly. They’ll now be training their teacher, and supporting one another, to get started in the classroom.
Congratulations to all of you. Congratulations David. This is a mighty and very impressive achievement. And it feels like something which transforms things within and without of schools. We were really impressed when you told us the story of Edubuzz so far last October at the National College of School Leadership in Nottingham and I’ve kept an eye on your good work ever since. This is something to be really proud of. Well done!
@Stuart: Thanks for your feedback, I’m pleased that eduBuzz continues to be of interest. You might be interested in this story about the impact it’s having on staff, which I posted last night: http://tinyurl.com/5r8o5b