QuadBlogging is a leg up to an audience for your class/school blog. Over the last 12 months 100,000 pupils have been involved in QuadBlogging from 3000 classes in 40 countries. QuadBlogging has recently been praised by Ofsted for how Haworth Primary School has used it. See page 6 here.
The concept is simple, either watch the short video to the right or keep reading…
A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a cycle. Here’s how it works:
You sign up using the form below, shortly after, you will be allocated a Quad four schools/classes including your own. Each Quad has a co-ordinator who is responsible for making sure each of the quad members know what is going on and when. Each week one blog is the focus blog with the other three blogs visiting and commenting during that week. In week two, another school/class blog is the focus with the other three visiting and commenting. This is repeated until each of the classes/schools has had their week in the spotlight. The cycle is then repeated. However, this time, your pupils know what is coming – They will work harder than you have seen them work in order to get content on their blog!
QuadBlogging has been mentioned very highly in recent OfSTED Reports here in the UK and praised for offering opportunities for:
“profound impact in developing pupils’ team working, communication and problem-solving skills”
It’s simple – Give it a try, sign up below.
Brilliant, thanks for this it makes it all much clearer!
So far we just have a general classroom blog going but I hope to get individual student blogs set up shortly!
-Claire
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Qadblog would be great for the school library to use for our readers to share what others are reading.
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David,
Will there be an additional session from April to June? If so, when will the sign-up be open?
Thank you so much for sharing this fabulous opportunity!
Dr. Donna Baratta
Library Media Specialist
Mildred E. Strang Middle School
Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
Yes, April to July however people are signing up all the time and new Quads being launched all the time.
Thanks for the interest.
David
Hi – I signed up for a quadblog a couple of weeks ago and haven’t heard anything yet. I just wanted to check you got my sign-up and to enquire when I might hear about the quadblog.
Many thanks – Alex
Hi Alex
You are in Quad 95
David
Would love to participate in Quad Blogging! We have a blog and getting visibility has been a challenge. I’ve signed up twice but never been matched. I see one session is closing. When will the next start?
Thanks!
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how much does this cost?
And what happens after the first 8 week cycle?
Do you have to sign up again?
Thanks
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