Literacy Resources

Day 4 of 20 days to better blogging with children is about ensuring that the blog that you use is as safe as is necessary for your class. 

The first place to start is your Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to see if it has a publishing to the web section.  Your next step is to talk about what you want to do with the relevant people.  This will vary from school to school but will obviously include the ICT subject leader.  You will need to discuss the following things:

• what a blog is
• what would be acceptable to include in it : -
• school name – some blogs are called by the school name, others don’t mention it at all
• names of children – how other children refer to their friends, whether it is appropriate to post under a child’s name
• whether photographs and film can be included in posts
• what you might need to share with the parents about what you are doing
• who the blog will be visible to – totally public or private so that only you and the children can see it
• anything else that is relevant

These are all issues that must be resolved and each solution will be  different for each school.