I have been very  busy this week as today we had a conference with several schools, associations and our partners at the ForMin Finland about global education. We are working on (analysing) the competences making a global citizen, and to be more precise, the competence of global partnership or mutuality/reciprocity in global - or north-south - cooperation. Great topic, isn't it! We have school kids aged 12 to 18 in the team too and the treat us aunties and uncles with great mutuality:D

Well, some of the schools use blogs in their project work, some seem to do that with great sophistication too. There is this quite regular largish comprehensive school (classes 1-9) up in Northern Ostrobothnia who have a partnerschool in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian school is for deaf kids, so the way they communicate with the Finnish kids has to be of a special kind. They blog and use a lot of pictures in the posts. They also believe in communicating by doing something practical, so the Finn kids (the whole school I was told) knit socks for the not so well-to-do Ethiopians. The knitting process is documented in the blogs.

I was looking at Courtney's tips [thanks!!] for us about blogging and decided to share with you the above experience after coming across this quote:

International link-ups. Contact another educational establishment to see if they are interested in a joint blogging project. Students can write about their lives, culture, interests, etc, and be encouraged to read about the other class and respond by writing comments.(http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/blogging-elt)