Using the blog to connect my primary school music lessons with the wider world

1. Reasons to blog in
school
Jackie Schneider
May 2015

2. To improve teaching and
learning by
• Building relationships
• Connecting my students with
the world beyond school
• Retaining my sanity (or CPD)

3. Through the blog we
• celebrate young musicians
• reinforce and extend lessons
• give kids access to professional musicians
• provide a platform to showcase our classwork
• keeps work alive between lessons
• Gives pupils a ‘genuine’ voice

4. Builds relationships
• with the children
• with other class teachers in school
• with parents
• with musicians
• with other music educators

6. First Rule of Blogging:
Know what
you want it for.

7. Getting started
• Know what you want
• Search blogosphere
• Tackle e safety head on
• Identify audience
• Consider using twitter

8. photopeach
Tellagami
Photos for class
Great free tools

9. Top tips
• Little and often
• Quick and dirty
• Creative commons - don’t steal!
• Make blog part of school life
• It’s not “extra” work - it IS the work!

10. Contact me
• Email @jackieschneider.mail@gmail.com
• On twitter @jackieschneider
• via the blog http://stteresasmusic.academyblogger.co.uk/
• Via my teacher blog
https://primarymusicmatters.wordpress.com/