eduBuzz development tasks

Section 1: Portal

• Create A-Z Contributors link list, link off homepage (do we include student blogs? selected student blogs?)
• Create A-Z Themes list, link off homepage
• Potentially create a student portal with student-only work highlighted
• Create Flash movie on the benefits of blogging (LTS?)
• Create a parent area with student and teacher work highlighted, information on teaching and learning impact, links to (eventual) media literacy material
• Move 'About eduBuzz' text (edited down) to homepage. Provide link to extended version.
• Identify main hotlinks for people wanting to explore for homepage
• Create latest feeds widget for homepage
• Personalise PageFlakes (new product launched on June 26). Improve speed by creating different profiles for different areas/clusters/themes with fewer entries on each. Compare with Netvibes in schools viz speed and reliability on older browsers.

Section 2: Support materials

• Improve instructions for creating your own blog
• Create instructions on how to create whole class blogging 'kit' (blogs x30)
• Link to new advice on LTS website (when available, August 2007) on blogging, podcasting, wiki etc pedagogy.

Section 3: Marketing and dissemination

• Prior to portal being ready:
  • Talks on progress and how we got there in Boston and Scottish Learning Festival
  • Ongoing blog posts on progress

• When new portal is ready:
  • Create press releases with inhouse Comms people
  • Scottish Learning Festival to promote in talks and TeachMeet
  • Disseminate in Focus magazine
  • Dissmeinate in ICT Newsletter