Our second featured Life Idea is from Litherland High School in Sefton where they have used a single sub site to provide pages for revision across the curriculum.

The Idea explains how this structure can be implemented in different situations at both primary and secondary level.

We are really pleased to launch Life Ideas with a great submission from St James's CE High School in Bolton where they are engaging students and saving teacher time through the use of student editors.

“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.” Jim Rohn

We are keen to share some of the fantastic ways that schools are using Life to facilitate learning and communication. One idea from another school or organisation may be just the thing to inspire the development of someone else’s Life site.

E-safety is a subject that many in schools have strong opinions about. In this blog post we discuss the similarities between e-safety and teaching other aspects of behaviour as well as suggesting ways that online learning enviornments can support this teaching.

I have been involved in quite a few discussions about schools and e-safety recently. It’s often seems to be a subject that many people have strong opinions on; strong opinions that seem to range from favouring locking everything down to those in favour of allowing free access and dealing with issues as they arise.

Have you had a chance to explore the new options available to customise your learning cells and header menu? These were introduced in the 1.7.0 release earlier in the term and are particularly useful for those of you using Life as your web site.

Find out how the options work in this post.

Inspirational quotations can help to motivate students throughout the year, but become particularly useful at exam and testing time. We would like to share some of our favourites with you and hope you may find some to share in turn with your students.

Virtual sticky note boards are a popular online resource for use both in and out of the classroom. In this post we share some ideas for using these and the Life sticky notes resources, 'posties'.

The next post in this series based on my presentation from BETT looks at the benefits of using multimedia within your learning platform in order to support writers in your classroom.

There's also some exciting news about the fantastic Purple Mash from 2simple...

Although many schools are already making use of the benefits of blogging for their learners and their community, if you are new to the idea you might not readily see where you could start. The concepts of inspiring writers through an online audience and improving parental engagement sound like they would have great potential to most educators, but for many, some specific ideas can make all the difference.

The second in this series based on my presentation from BETT looks at the benefits of using multimedia within your learning platform in order to support writers in your classroom.