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My colleague Craig Stebbing has recently seen the light and begun to keep a blog to use with his maths classes: Stebblog. He is using it in a way that I haven’t seen before. Rather than it being a scribe post blog, it is a place where he posts homework assignments. He is encouraging his classes to post questions about the homework as comments. Then either he or other students can reply to the questions.

The pupils seem quite enthusiastic about this, so I’m looking forward to seeing how it works out. I suspect that in time Craig may decide to run a separate blog in which to reflect upon how things are going.
Meanwhile, I spent some time on Wednesday helping Paul Goodall at PL to set up a class blog for his S5 maths class. I’ll post the URL once he’s got started properly.

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I met with Ewan McIntosh this afternoon to talk about the use of blogs in maths departments across East Lothian. It was fascinating. Ewan is utterly convinced (and convincing) about the potential benefits of blogging for teachers and pupils, whilst at the same time remaining pragmatic about the fact that for most teachers this is utterly foreign territory.

I’m still trying to digest the contents of our conversation – I’ll probably have more to say in a day or two.

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