QuadBlogging

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Welcome to QuadBlogging 2011 – 2012

We are poised to launch the new round of QuadBlogging to start in January 2012. If you don’t know what QuadBlogging is, here’s a short video produced by pupils in Mrs. Yollis’ class in Los Angeles, Mr. Salsich’s Class in Connecticut, Class B4 in New Zealand and Class 2KM and 2KJ Leopold School, Australia:

QuadBlogging – The defibrillator of the blogging world!

A defibrillator: To deliver electrical energy to the heart to stun the heart momentarily and thus allow a normal sinus rhythm to kick in via the heart’s normal electricity centre.
Taken from: here

QuadBlogging: To deliver electrical energy of a global audience to the heart of a blog to allow a rhythm of excitement to kick via the blog’s widening global audience.

Imagine four schools that had a partnership/agreement that would mean that for a four week cycle, each school’s blog would be the focus for one week out of four. Each school in the Quad would spend some time visiting the blog of the school for that week, leave comments etc. After that week, another one of the four schools would be the focus and this would be repeated for the four week cycle and then repeated. It wouldn’t take the pupils long to work out that during their week, they would get a boost in visitor numbers and comments. This would give a real focus to have posts online ready for this bulge in visits. During the other three weeks, pupils get to visit and comment on other blogs in their quad. Pupils being pupils, they would also venture out of the quads and visit other blogs that are linked.

By signing up, you will have much more flexibility than the first round of Quadblogging last year. You will be able to request a number of options to help you get the kind of quad that would suit your class the best for the project. Your details will be placed into a Google Presentation for your Quad, your Quad will have a designated co-ordinator to ensure all four teachers are notified and this will be embedded in this blog.

The presentations detailing which blog you are in will begin to appear late November and through to late December depending on uptake and how specific you are with your requests.

Please see below the Quads formed so far for January:

The map below, shows where QuadBloggers have signed up from so far (it does take between 20 seconds and a few minutes to load!):

 

QuadBlogging by David Mitchell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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