School trip blog

**cantthinkofanickname** · 15th January 2009, 01:18 PM

Our school is going to France and they would like to have an on-line blog so while they are away the teachers can write a diary for the parents and those at home.

Has anyone any ideas how this could be done? perhaps a temporary blog or something.

**Dom_** · 15th January 2009, 01:24 PM

At my old school the rugby lads went on tour and the PE teachers did a blog on blogspot - The MFG Under 15 Rugby Tour to South Africa

I didn't look at creating one but they seemed to manage ok and weren't too techie!

**p858snake** · 15th January 2009, 02:13 PM

Does your school have any of its own webhosting where you can put what you like? if so what are some details? php?

If you have access to a server with php+mysql i would wordpress (multiple accounts to one blog) or wordpress mu (multiple users either posting to the same blog or separate blogs)

**Sirbendy** · 15th January 2009, 02:35 PM

or set up wordpress on wordpress.com, and have them host it...

**p858snake** · 15th January 2009, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by Sirbendy

or set up wordpress on wordpress.com, and have them host it...

That's a good idea as well, the only reason i didn't suggest it was because i wasn't sure the UK's laws about data storage and stuff (eg: if you need to keep backups and such).

**Sylv3r** · 15th January 2009, 07:51 PM

We are ready to launch wordpress mu for our media studies students. Everything was relatively simple to setup.

**chrbb** · 15th January 2009, 08:18 PM

I've just set up a wordpress blog hosted by wordpress for our pupils. May move it over to our website hosts or just leave it with the free host. I've set the pupils up with a logon that they can post but it needs to be authorised before it's published.