I’ve now been running blogs with & for my classes since 2005. I still find them a really useful tool for teaching and learning. The focus and content has changed continually over the years.<\/p>\n
Back in the noughties I was keen on having my class blog kept up by pupils<\/a> (archive.org link).<\/p>\n I find this harder to organise now, not sure if it is my age, the demands of the curriculum or something else. Pupils in my class now post to their e-Portfolios1<\/sup><\/a> and add pieces of work to the class blog which I collate into posts. I also pinch quotes from their e-portfolios for the class blog2<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n Like my own blog here I still find my class blog a great resource to remember & review. Of course it is a curated view. Much depends on what I am finding most interesting at the time. I both enjoy reading back and use it as a tool when asked for feedback or a record of some sort.<\/p>\n I was somewhat cheered up by Matt Mullenweg’s birthday<\/a>. Sometimes it feels like WordPress is focused on content management. Matt’s post show that blogging is still loved. I’ve now been running blogs with & for my classes since 2005. I still find them a really useful tool for teaching and learning. The focus and content has changed continually over the years. Back in the noughties I was keen on having my class blog kept up by pupils (archive.org link). I find this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953,6],"tags":[810,10,1784,222,1614,11],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posse","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-banton","9":"tag-blogging","10":"tag-glow-blogs","11":"tag-glowblogs","12":"tag-matt-mullenweg","13":"tag-wordpress","14":"kind-article","16":"h-entry","17":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4Tk","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18810,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806\/revisions\/18810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18806"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=18806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhile content management is a<\/em> main focus of Glow Blogs<\/a> my love is blogging. I still think we are only scratching the surface of the use of WordPress in school3<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\nPosts Last Term (Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 on my class blog )<\/h3>\n
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