It just didn't work and failed, and now I get to pull the pin. I thought the idea was fine, having all members of the staff (Y7 syndicate) contributing to a collective blog but after three terms nothing has come of it. There's been a variety of reasons, and after Ulearn10 I've had a better idea.One of the problems with the posts that I have had with nearly three years of posting everyday is that I have over 1,000 pieces of work. Some of these have been successful, some of which have received significant publicity and some should have received more. It make sense to put the best ones together on one site (linked through cultural groupings) for exemplars that do anything else. I have tried to link exemplars through the pages on the Room Eight and while this works (its amongst our most viewed page) I still think something else could be done.
The Y7 idea was for everyone to have input, for my students to motivate the other classrooms but at the end of the day no one else was really prepared to buy into it. This isn't a knock on the teachers that I work with, their level of IT experience has improved greatly.
