I was talking recently about setting up a group blog for students doing Scifest 2008.
John Hegarty suggested Google Groups might be a good way to go, and also mentioned that Tom Kendall gives talks on blogging in schools and he suggests the following site as a platform to work on http://www.21classes.com/
Tom has set up two of these in his own school: http://msmccarthy.21classes.com/ and http://crazy.21classes.com/.
Mags Amond however has suggested another alternative, which she mentioned on the DICTAT forum
“Also, nearer home, TeachNet / Digital Hub people are piloting a space for Irish Second Level students called Project Blogger (building with WordPress). The TY science students in 15 schools are being introduced to it over these few weeks, so Blogs being what they are there hopefully should be something to see very soon.”
All of these are involved with CESI, which is holding its conference on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th February, so maybe I’ll delay things a little and hopefully talk to them there.