How using blogging in the education sector

1. Julia Skinner @theheadsoffice
Improving Writing
Through Blogging
School Leaders Summit

2. Eeyore was saying to
himself, ‘This writing
business. Pencils and
what-not. Over-rated,
if you ask me. Silly
stuff. Nothing in it.’
A.A.Milne

3. Why bother?
It's boring
Who reads it?
Won't do it in later
life

5. Sentence Prompts
...it wasn’t my fault...
...the weather changed for the worst...
...the chocolate rabbit melted in the sun ...

7. Individual Word Prompts
Silver, Tiny, Paris, Birthday, Jumped
Carefully Fifty Spider White Pushed
Hard Beautiful Brown Worried Camera

8. 100WC.net
86 Countries

9. Impact!
Raising Standards
Improving Confidence
Increasing Motivation

10. ‘The unread story is not a
story; it is little black marks on
wood pulp. The reader, reading
it, makes it live: a live thing, a
story.’
Ursula K. Le Guin

11. Receiving comments from other schools
and teachers from around the world helps
me to improve on my writing and reading
skills. Its amazing what you can learn just
by sharing your own personal ideas.
Georgia
I love the 100 WC because the
prompts they give you are brilliant
they give you great prompts like out
of the blue, all I could see were two
red eyes, and they sometimes give you
pictures like a key in frosty grass and
even once they gave us a video and
many more great prompts. JosephAnyway it encourages you, you feel more
confident when some one else writes on your
work because they’ve write some thing
lovely. It makes you belive that your a more
creative and better writer, and to feel that
you can do it and that your a fantastic writer.
From Annalise 6D
Without a prompt we could be
thinking for a while on what
our story cold be about but
with the prompt it gives us a
few ideas and everybody’s
story can still be completely
different because everyone
will have a different take on
the prompt each week. Derebhile
I like getting comments from other people
and giving comments to people. It’s weird
how many different takes there are on just
the one prompt. No two are the same! Blaithin

12. Team 100WC
100wc.net
Giving the children a regular diet of
comments is vital to improving their
writing.
Team 100WC is a group of adults who
each week look at a given number of
entries and provide a constructive
comment.
We need lots more people!

13. 100wc.net
@theheadsoffice
Benefits to Students
•Improve literacy – can be done in Tutor
Time
•Link with younger students & give
something back
•A Levels – fits language acquisition &
literacy
•Opportunity for accreditation that can
go on UCAS forms

14. ‘It’s ONLY a hundred words!’

15. theheadsoffice.co.uk
Julia Skinner
@theheadsoffice