Student Blogs. For about 400 kids. New KS3 English Syllabus

[pete]

The new syllabus (which I think is OCR, but may be AQA) requires an element of "blogging", which can be electronic or (in the event of the Amish / luddites) a personal journal.

 

Let's set aside the child safety implications for the moment, we'll come to those.

 

I have two possible ways of doing this:

 

1) Using Moodle 2.0's blogging feature. It's AD-integrated, content-moderated and it's backed up. Downside is that (by default) your average 11 year old girl who's crazy about ponies can't easily splatter a pony theme across her moodle blog, so it's not as enticing to the kid.

 

2) Using a Wordpress's multi-site option, hosted locally. Ponies galore, but it drives traffic away from the VLE. Options for moderation unclear atm, LDAP integration of unknown reliability.

 

How do you do yours?

[Sylv3r]

We use a Wordpress mu setup for our media and technology studies.

 

We currently don't have any AD or LDAP integration but will be looking into this - if we can get it to work - we will make blogs available to all students.

 

Does anybody know any good AD / LDAP modules that will automatically create wordpress mu accounts as well as use password credentials direct from our AD? - Is their such a thing?