As part of your learning about using a blog, can you each please give some thought to the sorts of features you might want to include on a tool like this and record your ideas as comments to this post? My thoughts include:
- Translation if we can find one that works well enough.
- Labels for each child in the ESOL programme.
- We need to consider whether each child will get their own Google account, or if they will use the same shared one. I'll comment pros/cons of both ways.
- Images to show children's learning.
- Direct feed into the ESOL wiki - I'll make a test home page on the wiki for this.
Pros and Cons for giving kids google accounts.
ReplyDeletePros:
-you can have total control over whether children can alter the blog or not by making them authors or administrators.
-with individual accounts it makes it hard for children to accidentally muck up each others posts.
-children with their own gmail accounts will be able to use that gmail account when they leave FOS.
-you could create a gmail address for a family (might not work for multiple kids in one family though).
-a shared ESOL google account would make learning to blog easier for the kids and families.
Cons:
-it is more work to implement because kids need to learn to create an account and log in/etc.