In Which I Found Out About Quadblogging.

We’ve established that blogging is great. See previous blogs and this old (in tech terms) video:

Having your class write a blog can be beneficial to their reading and writing skills but where they really become effective is when they have an audience. A blog without an audience is like a library without books according to David Mitchell, the creator of Quadblogging. It’s a very simple concept for connecting schools across the world. Four schools take turns being the focus school, writing blogs while the other three read and write comments on it.

Actually, while that does it explain the concept, THIS video is more fun:

The stats say it works, “connecting over 100,000 pupils from over 4000 classes in 40 countries” and the students say it works. You can see them talking with each other on the Quadblogging Twitter page.

Most often, a pupil’s school work goes as far as, maybe, their parents. Using Quadblogging, they have a guaranteed international audience where their work gets feedback from like-minded children. There are lessons to learn about how the internet works, e-safety, typing skills and other general ICT skills. So while there is significant enthusiasm for the project within a class, there is an environment that can be most productive for learning.

As an enthusiastic ICT teacher, I’m confident that I will venture towards schemes like this, new and uncharted territories for learning within ICT. I’m interested to find out what could be next. Or what is currently going on that I don’t know about. My adventure continues…