Putting Your School News Online - Part 1: The Idea

Technology is fantastic for quickly sharing information with people you care about. At the moment my school shares news by sticking lots of information together as a newsletter, and then emailing it to parents. The parents have to check their emails, download the file, and ensure they have the right software so they can read it. Three steps, three clicks. Works fine, so why change it?

Because internet technologies help us to rethink how we share school news, getting your readers to it with just one click.

Rather than compiling a number of news items into a newsletter on a weekly or fortnightly basis, and sending it as a big lump to parents, each news item could be shared as a separate post on a blog.

It’s instant, it’s bite-size, there’s no file download, and it’s Google searchable.

So how can it be done?

NEXT: What is a blog? And why use blogED?

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Ian says:

08 Jul 2011 at 01:17 PM
An interesting idea

Audrey Nay says:

09 Jul 2011 at 11:05 AM
Tim, I have been using a blog to highlight school happenings for a while now. Our school has moved to exploring the possibility of having parents subscribe to receive the newsletter, although they can already access a digital copy from the school website page. Your idea encourages me to think differently. We could well be gaining nothing from this endeavour and may be better off creating new ways of thinking about news coming to parents. Why do we need to have a weekly news set-up? In this digital day and age we can share "news" as soon as it happens, and in blog format it is easily searchable whenever the school community wish to access the information, even a year down the track..Thanks for the chance to rethink this! :)cheers

Princess E says:

16 Jul 2011 at 11:18 PM
I love what you have done with your Bloged and it has inspired me to keep going despite some issues I am having with it. It looks professional and visually appealing. Looking forward to the post on bloged. Thanks Tim Kiaora!