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Your class blog is a really important part of your learning. It gives you the chance to share your learning with people outside of our school community. Perhaps even with people from all over the world. For this reason it is really important that we try hard to create a good impression of our school, our community and even our country.

To help you do this we’ve come up with some useful tips on how we can make sure that the content of our blogs is of a high standard. We call these, our production values. Read these tips again before you begin any of these activities.

Posting Stories and Reports

• Think carefully about what you want to achieve. What is the purpose of your writing? Who is the intended audience?
• Plan your posts carefully making sure that you include all the important details.
• Apply what you have learned in your literacy lessons. Take some time to check the spelling and punctuation before submitting your work.
• Help each other by proof reading posts before you submit them for publication. Sometimes it’s hard to spot our own silly mistaix.

Podcasts and Video Casts

• Think about what you want to achieve from your podcast before you begin. What is the purpose of it and who is the target audience.
• Decide if it will be a ‘one off’ or will it be an episode in a series of podcasts.
• Plan each chapter of each episode carefully.
• Script your podcast and rehearse it until you feel confident that you can record it without hesitation.
• Patiently edit it. Do not rush. If you are not happy with a chapter re-record it.
• Add music and sound effects if you think these will improve the overall effect.
• Always reflect on your work. What could you have done differently to have improved it?

Digital films and animations

• Think about what you want to achieve from your film before you begin. What is the purpose of it and who is the target audience.
• Always sketch a storyboard of each scene.
• Write a script and make sure all your actors rehearse their parts.
• Consider the best locations for each scene.
• Consider what props and costumes you could use. If you need to make something and you’re not sure how. Ask somebody for advice or help.
• Good directors always think about camera angles. Be prepared to shoot the same scene twice from a different angle. You can decide which you prefer when you edit.
• Patiently edit your films. Sometimes this can take longer than the actual filming.
• Always reflect on your films. How could you have improved them?

One final tip, be prepared to listen to the ideas of the other people in your group. It’s about what we can achieve when we work together, not what you can achieve on your own.

Have fun.

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