Friday 31st August - Blogging

Technology, and particularly the internet, is changing ways in which we communicate with one another.  10 years ago the social networking site ‘Friendster’ was the biggest with 3 million members.  Now, Facebook has over 900 million members.  Making a telephone call to loved ones in another country was very expensive, but now thanks to Skype, over 70 million members make video calls for free. 

These advances, and many others, are a challenge for schools and teachers.  At Tu Xuong we have to ask which of these communication methods we should be using as part of our children’s education.  Last year we started to use blogs.  This is something we are developing further this year.

At our Parents’ Information Meeting on Tuesday 4^th September, we will be talking more about this, so please come along to find out more.  Also, this year I will be keeping a blog which can be found at:

www.ianbattersby.blogspot.com

Please feel free to put comments or ask questions about anything to do with school.