Comments on: Third Year mayhem http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/ adventures in classroom technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:48:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: telf http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-420 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:01:52 +0000 http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-420 sir wiy yi roe abt me ?? no ma fault a choose tht nme eh sir wiy yi roe abt me ??
no ma fault a choose tht nme eh

]]> by: Neil Winton http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-403 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:18:46 +0000 http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-403 Hi Pete, I\'m impressed, though like John I\'d have reservations on allowing ads on to an Educational site/pupil blogs... especially if you have no control over what adverts are placed there. If you have your own server, you could consider a WPMU installation. Very straightforward to do, and gives you just about all the control you need. One thing I would say (and I know you\'ll have covered this) is that you need to teach the pupils what is and isn\'t acceptable on an Education blog... I spend a lot of time stressing that the pupils\' blogs are an extension of the classroom (and in my case, that\'s an English classroom so I don\'t accept txt language!). If the pupils want to use txt and post bad language, they are free to do that in their own time on their Bebo/MySpace/Facebook/etc... I\'ve also got ours set up so that they have to agree to the terms and conditions before they sign up. Feel free to have a look - http://blogs.perthacademy.net - and to reference if you wish... most of our guidelines are based on other people\'s guides so I am pleased to return the favour! Cheers! Hi Pete,
I\’m impressed, though like John I\’d have reservations on allowing ads on to an Educational site/pupil blogs… especially if you have no control over what adverts are placed there.

If you have your own server, you could consider a WPMU installation. Very straightforward to do, and gives you just about all the control you need.

One thing I would say (and I know you\’ll have covered this) is that you need to teach the pupils what is and isn\’t acceptable on an Education blog… I spend a lot of time stressing that the pupils\’ blogs are an extension of the classroom (and in my case, that\’s an English classroom so I don\’t accept txt language!). If the pupils want to use txt and post bad language, they are free to do that in their own time on their Bebo/MySpace/Facebook/etc…

I\’ve also got ours set up so that they have to agree to the terms and conditions before they sign up. Feel free to have a look - http://blogs.perthacademy.net - and to reference if you wish… most of our guidelines are based on other people\’s guides so I am pleased to return the favour!

Cheers!

]]> by: geekyteach http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-303 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:05:21 +0000 http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-303 Same thing here, really. I wouldn't want to second guess the kids' behaviour, but of course it might seem funny to write something rude on it because it's on the internet. However, I do think that they know it's for school. I suppose I'm willing to give it a try, just hope it turns out to be a positive thing all round. Same thing here, really. I wouldn’t want to second guess the kids’ behaviour, but of course it might seem funny to write something rude on it because it’s on the internet. However, I do think that they know it’s for school. I suppose I’m willing to give it a try, just hope it turns out to be a positive thing all round.

]]> by: John http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-302 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:15:18 +0000 http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/01/29/third-year-mayhem/#comment-302 Hi Pete, The only problem with the host I can see is the ads, if you can live with them it looks fine. We been blogging without post moderation for a while now, in the past not too much of a problem as I\'ve only had about 4 posts per day at the max, but now I have a class with a blog each I was a bit more worried, you can\'t really see 20 odd posts in an hour and some of my kids have started posting from home. But I guess primary pupils are easier to keep in line, I mainly worry about spelling and sense. We have had open commenting on our main blogs since they started and I think I\'ve only deleted a couple of unpleasant comments, apart from auto generated comment spam which was a problem a while back. Hi Pete,
The only problem with the host I can see is the ads, if you can live with them it looks fine.
We been blogging without post moderation for a while now, in the past not too much of a problem as I\’ve only had about 4 posts per day at the max, but now I have a class with a blog each I was a bit more worried, you can\’t really see 20 odd posts in an hour and some of my kids have started posting from home. But I guess primary pupils are easier to keep in line, I mainly worry about spelling and sense.
We have had open commenting on our main blogs since they started and I think I\’ve only deleted a couple of unpleasant comments, apart from auto generated comment spam which was a problem a while back.

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