Purpose

The purpose of this weblog is to act as a Homepage for the Eastern Districts Schools Weblogs.
In order to keep things simple we intend to store all the planning and links on this page.

In late 2005 we decided that as all the schools in our cluster were small it would be good if the children could share at least some of their written work online. This could include both personal writing and perhaps set writing projects across all five schools. This would provide a much bigger audience for their wriitten work, particularly in terms of peer group sharing through the comments section but also family and friends throughout the world.

Step One
Richard from Matau to set up this home page, then visit all other schools and assist both teachers and children to set up their weblogs. At the end of the first visit the children will be able to:
1. Set up a template for their weblog and post both a short story and photo about themselves.
2. Log on to the blogger main site for posting further work.
3. Log on to their own weblogs to show them to others.

Step Two.
Richard will link all weblogs to this home page for easier navigation.
Schools will begin advertising their weblogs to family and friends.(preferably using email).
Children will post a recount story with or without a photo to their weblog.
Children will begin posting comments to each other. (Perhaps during silent reading time)

Step Three.
The group will meet to discuss any problems and to discuss possible shared writing activities for the future.