I’m just back from a residential trip with 20 of our KS3 GLD learners. Hard work, but fun.
I experimented with using a blog to compliment the usual diary work. Our children have limited literacy and the use of images and movies is invaluable. I chose to create a blog on blogger.com. It was essential to password protect the blog to protect the identity of many of our children. Blogger.com allows just that.
It proved to be a fantastic shared space where the children could share their experiences and ask each other questions. Most definitely a proof of concept. I will certainly develop the idea for future residentials. I am also looking forward to creating a shared blog between our partner school in Ghana, New Horizons Special School and ourselves.
Interested in your ideas re using blog on residential trip. Not sure what sort of trip you went on obviously different from the one I led…. not one spare moment when I was not up to my ears in mud, water, cooking, etc.
But I like the idea. Completely new to this blog thing. Wonder whether this bloggle get to you.
Thanks for your comment, Kate.
I integrated it into diary time – and being SEN it mostly involved uploading digital pictures. I’m sure you took photos anyway – so the additional workload was not too bad. Set yourself up a gmail account – email me and I can send you the link and password and you can have a look for yourself. It’s nothing fancy – and is surprisingly easy to organise.
I can also offer you help and advice. People tell me I am extremely good and patient at explaining technology to the less able!