Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. An LEA of around 275 primary schools. A network of blogs especially for the area.
 

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We want to and will make it easy for schools to keep their staff, pupils, parents, partners, other stake-holders and wider community informed, updated and engaged.

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It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.

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Bloom's taxonomy & blogs



A hypothetical test
“Given an example collaborative project, students should demonstrate the results and process of their work within the environment of a project weblog, demonstrating peer assessment, self-reflection, and categorisation of their work. In addition, students should demonstrate mastery of the weblog environment by successfully developing interlinked posts.”

Student, skill demonstrated: Competence: Weblog, skill demonstrated:
Recall basic facts

Quote parts of student posts

Produce lists of facts

Create weblog entries
Knowledge Recall basic facts

Quote parts of student posts

Produce lists of facts
Summarise group discussions

Associate related weblog posts from searches
Comprehension Summarise group discussions

Associate related weblog posts
Determine new relationships between peer entries

Create new categories within weblog

Constructively critique a classmate’s work
Application Determine new relationships between peer entries
Analyse own work and comment

Identify commonality between different classmate’s work
Analysis Identify commonality between different classmate’s work
Form new opinions by using classmate’s work as basis

Research web for related work to own

Find and display web based information from a number of sources and present within context
Synthesis Research web for related work

Find and display web based information from a number of sources and present within context
Critically assess own work and peer;

Create structured arguments based on findings
Evaluation None

Guy Dickinson drew up this chart relating to Bloom's Taxonomy in his (pdf) article
 "Weblogs - Can they accelerate expertise?"

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