More about the blogging competition
The first challenge for this student blogging competition will be on September 22 when students in my class return to school after their holidays. There will be three different activities each week: one for students with their own blog, another for students who mainly comment or use a class blog and finally an activity for those who have been blogging awhile and want to be challenged.
Remember if you are participating as a blogger on your own blog you must register as an individual. If you are commenting as part of a class then make sure your teacher has registered your class blog and left me a note about how many students will be participating in your class.
As you can see on the blogroll on the right, there is a separate section for the blogging competition and these are students or classes who have already registered. This blogroll will be added to as more people register.
Whenever you write a post or comment you will need to put stubc08 meaning student blogging competition 2008 as a tag or category or somewhere within your comment. That way teachers will be able to keep track of comments and posts using Technorati.
Some of the challenges will be about improving your own blog – about page, avatar, blogroll etc as well as improving what you write in your posts and comments. Hopefully you will go outside the normal blogs you write on and visit other people around the world. But remember wherever you go:
Be internet safe and savvy – do not give out lots of personal information.
Image from this site. Many thanks to Sue Waters from The Edublogger for also writing a post about this competition.
August 25, 2008 @ 7:40 am
Hi Sue,
I have already translated your post with the questionnaire, from the 1st August, as well as the post of Sue Waters. I explained to my students that they should go to the original posts to fill in the questionnaire and to leave comments.
I would also love to translate this post from the 22nd August, as well as all the other posts you will be writing during the competition.
If you would like to check, I’ve started the blog in Portuguese: http://inpi.edublogs.org
If I feel in trouble to translate any expression I can always ask Carla Arena and a great friend and colleague that is teacher of English in my School. For the moment, I’m not so sure if the words “blogging” and “to blog” may even be translated; I think we use them as they are, we call those “imported” English words “Anglicisms”.
Ines
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September 11, 2008 @ 10:24 am
Hey Miss wyatt i cant wait till the competition
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September 12, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
G’day Ines,
I have visited your Portuguese blog and it is looking fantastic. But I notice none of your students have joined the competition yet. They will still need to register, or you will need to register as a class blog.
@bar – yeah the competition is getting close now.
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