A big welcome to Shepeau Stow the latest school to become PM bloggers. Shepeau Stow is the first Lincolnshire school to be part of our community. Good Luck with the blogging!

PM Weblogs featured heavily at COMmunICaTe’07, a series of workshops on Web 2.0 technologies for international teachers held in Amsterdam recently. The blogging workshop run by Gareth Davies, enabled educators from throughout Europe to consider the learning benefits of blogging for students of all ages. The teachers all set up their own blogs and will be trialling them in their classrooms over the next few months.

So successful was the event, COMmunicate’07 will be repeated twice in the UK before the end of the year in the Leeds area and London.

Even if you were not at the BETT Show then you can still get in on the action and create a trial PM blog to explore how blogs might enhance the teaching and learning at your school. It is a simple process. Why not give it a go?

Welcome to St. Patrick’s Catholic Primary School in Rochdale, who is the latest school to set up Partnership Matters blogs.

John Sutton, the PM partner supporting the North West region, has helped two other schools in the region begin to make use of blogs and they have formed an informal community, providing support, audience and inspiration for each other’s blogs.

John’s blog is a useful source of information on his blogging exploits with schools. He can be contacted via the Partnership Matters website or via email.