… was written when I showed some teachers how easy it is to use WordPress (or a similar application) to keep a website up to date. Specifically an interactive school website. Far away from the traditional website that gets designed, half built and never updated (because the geeky teacher moves on or into other things) a school site based on blog software comes alive and gets messages out. Sure, have a static front page if you want! But consider a site that is as dynamic as the school that it represents.

We had a bit of an all sorts day yesterday. We went back to our cluster philosophy and looked at our mission statement and also at our key vision:

Footprints into the future

Our vision statement encompasses so much of the essence of our ICT_PD cluster. We want learning to stick like the black sand out at Muriwai; we want to develop our leaders and chart a course through the tides; we want to feel the sands of ideas between our toes; and we want to have fun in the sandpit.

Our lead teachers are a crazy bunch of people. They sat around in silence getting their heads around Centre4, our online environment. Then they let rip in the chatroom and blogs. We are going to have an excellent year with some very out-side-the-box-people.