Class Organisation

Homework

• Homework- Ian Lillico’s approach to homework- parent and child build the homework tasks together.

Ideas for organising your class to facilitate home school interactions via Blogging

• Blogging monitors with responsibility to add to the blog each week. Posting regularly.
• Showing parents how to leave comments and encouraging them to do so. Chocolate fish bribes: Allanah's blog.
• Quad Blogging- team up with three other classes in school to be a 'star' blogging class for a week at a time.
• The blog is on the data projector/TV in the mornings as a discussion starter as parents walk in the room.
• Making sure the blog is rolling over with interesting content so it is worth revisiting.
• Ensuring that the blog/wiki is linked to the school website so people can easily find it.
• Adding an email subscription to your blog so parents get an email when you have updated. How to on the Bling4yrblog.
• Children emailing parents immediately when a learning goal is met or an achievement needs celebrating.
• Explicitly teach how to comment on your blog so they can teach their parents.
• Here's a four minute video from Linda Yollis on what to say when ou comment on a blog post. For me, as a teacher, I always comment and give some feedback on posts that children have written. Why should anyone else leave a comment if you haven't modelled it.
• Here is a blog post that Allanah wrote on how to promote your blog.
• How to get your community more involved in your blogs? A VLN discussion
• How do you support children to write and respond to blogs? A VLN discussion