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A Quad, a Blog and a Leap! Blogging QuadBlogging Blog the Leap Year Impact 9% L5 to 60% L5 in 12 months 2010 Leavers made on average per child 6.6 points progress (2 years) in 12 months 2011 Leavers made on average per child 6.0 points progress (2 years) in 12 months 2012 Leavers made on average per child 6.0 points progress (2 years) in 12 months Changing a culture... Acting Head Teacher For every 1 pupil sent to me for positive things 10 pupils sent to me for negative things Well Done Blog - www.welldone.heathfieldcps.net Ratio now reversed! http://bit.ly/yvHL4Y Letting go and let evolution happen. Ownership was KEY! The beginning... 3 Schools helping 1 school The Power of Twitter... 4 classes became 20 classes in 7 days 20 classes became 3500 classes in 12 months from 40 countries!! Stripped down blogging to its simplest form Accessible by ANYONE ANYWHERE for 1 day only! www.Feb29th.net Headlines: 300,000 hits before the site even went live! 12,000 posts At one point for 40 minutes, 1 post every 2 seconds 110 countries visited Some examples: Check out number 15 on this list of likes: There were 98 'Bucket Lists' posted... To this wonderfullly profound advice... A cry for help... And finally... The Stats: 400,000 hits 12,000 posts IN ONE DAY!!!! 4000 comments and counting "Ministers have ploughed millions of pounds into trying to solve the problem of boys' writing and reading standards, creating a "boys into books" scheme which introduced more fact-based books for boys to read in the classroom and a "reading champions" programme in which Premier League footballers spoke about their favourite books. Neither, though, seem to have had as big an effect as the opportunity to blog at Heathfield primary school." Independent: 11/2/2011 Scoop.it collects QuadBlogging gold! http://www.scoop.it/t/quadblogging In just one day... 400,000 hits 12,000 posts 5000 comments 130 countries Very one dimensional so added Voice through Audioboo http://welldone.heathfieldcps.net More examples on: htp://DeputyMitchell.com Google Certified Teacher LWF Innovator of the Year Award 2012 NAACE ICT Impact Award Winner 2011 Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award 2010 Toshiba ICT Redesign Award Winner 2010 David Mitchell www.DeputyMitchell.com "...Getting kids to blog is like getting over weight children to exercise by holding Strictly Come Dancing competitions: an intelligent and overdue harnessing of the pop culture that we can all we like but that remains the backbone of most people's non-working lives. Some stories make me really love he modern world and this is one of them. David Mitchell deserves a medal at the very least." India Knight - Sunday Times: Feb 13th 2011 Pass The Blog 52 weeks... 52 classes How far can one blog travel? www.passtheblog.creativeblogs.net England France New Zealand Thailand Scotland Ireland Australia USA Canada Wales Switzerland QuadBlogging and Ofsted... Haworth Primary School Plus 5 other recent reports!