CBL Blog Request

On Friday I received an email from two boys at WPPS asking if I could come in and talk to them about blogs and help them with a few areas they were having trouble with.
I absolutely loved receiving the email. It is one of the aspects of CBL I really love - kids taking responsibility for the entire process.
So I replied and said I would come in Monday morning to have a chat with them.

I was at school this morning. It was nice being able to go in and see the kids again but really wonderful to see their skills and confidence in using the iPads and how much they were enjoying their CBL initiatives.

We chatted about promoting their blog and I offered some suggestions for them on different media to include. They had already made a video, they had already made a permission form to publish the video and had already had the child's parents fill in the form and return it. (Have I mentioned how much I love CBL?)

We figured out how to upload their video and embed it into their blog. I got them to test it out with another video with me assisting and then got them to pretend I didn't know how to embed video and show me. Which they did.

As my time was limited there I had to leave before the video had finished encoding and uploading but I received an email from them this afternoon telling me their video was online.

What it is like to be 12

While they are still learning how to blog and how to use the Wordpress app and Vimeo, I was so pleased to check it out and see a perfectly embedded video.

They also asked me to share their blog on twitter etc so they could try to get more feedback and comments so they can improve their blog.

So if you have a spare moment, it would be very exciting for them if you could comment. Especially if you are in another country than Australia.

Do you remember what it was like to be 12?