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An update to the Student Contributor Plugin is ready for release. The main change is as follows: The comments column from the ‘All Posts’ list and the comments option from the ‘screen options’ drop-down have been removed. Many thanks to Luke from High Lawn Primary for spotting the need for a plugin update for the WP 3.21 version If you blog with Creative Blogs, the NorthantsBLT or Primary Blogger then you do not have to do anything as the plugin is already being installed on your sites  For other interested parties, feel free to visit the Student Contributors Plugin Page.  

An update to the Student Contributor Plugin is ready for release. The main changes are as follows: The ‘Right Now’ dashboard widget has also been removed for contributors. It adds little of value for student contributors and Askimet, when activated,  pushes summary links to comments through this widget. Thanks to Andrew Chadwick for taking the time to point this out. Removed the ‘Tools’ and ‘Profile’ menu items for contributors from the admin sidebar. If you blog with Creative Blogs or the NorthantsBLT then you do not have to do anything as the plugin is...

Many schools, classes and students are enjoying the benefits of using WordPress blogs in a myriad of ways for more engaging learning, teaching, communication and collaboration. Often pupils are given ‘contributor’ rights to allow them to write content that must first be approved by a teacher before being published and ‘going live’ to the world. This process generally works well but recently it came to my attention that a child logged in as a ‘contributor’ could also view the whole list of unmoderated site comments via the dashboard widgets or the links to the...

The fourth wall is a hypothetical barrier between actors and audience. This barrier is broken when an actor interacts with the audience through an aside. There were three rules in my classroom in 2001: Mr Ford must have fun! You (the children) must have fun! We need to get learning done! The pupils owned this mantra and we used it as the basis for evaluating and improving our daily experiences in school. They often reminded me when I broke the rules. We generally enjoyed a convivial atmosphere and even the mundane drudgery of spelling tests and multiplication tables or my uncreative SATs revision...