Week 4 BlogAction Day – Poverty – October 15
Blog Action Day began in 2007 when a few bloggers started with a little “What if …” question about getting lots of bloggers to post on the same day about the same issue. They began asking bloggers they knew and it quickly grew and grew. That year, on the theme of the Environment, 20,000 bloggers participated with a combined audience in the millions. The event also attracted support from the United Nations (UN).
This year the theme is Poverty. Bloggers everywhere are asked to post on that theme, so we get thousands of viewpoints, opinions and ideas, all relating to their specific blogs and audiences. We hope that by starting a global discussion we can help bring about both personal actions and a raised awareness for global poverty action going on. Notice Edublogs is one of the sponsors.
Activities to choose from for week 4
1. Visit the blogaction day website . Watch the video or if this is blocked at your school, your teacher might be able to show it in a class. If you want to register your blog, I would firstly check with your teacher as there are many non-education bloggers there who might then start visiting your blog. Perhaps it would be safer to register a class blog. But you can at the same website, copy the code from under the badge you want to include on your post. You add this to your post by changing from Visual to HTML in the right corner of your post dashboard. Now go back into Visual to write your post.
So what could you write about?
- How education helps lift people out of poverty
- What schools and student life is like in poorer countries
- What students can do to participate in social action
Look at what this class in New Zealand is doing with students in Kenya here, here and here.
2. Play an interactive game about a village in Nepal and how they can try to alleviate poverty there. Relate this game to the girl effect video mentioned below.
3. Check out these websites with information about global poverty. You might include some of these facts in your post. Causes of poverty, the girl effect video, Stand up against poverty, make poverty history
4. Possibly the easiest thing teachers/students can do is organise a group to participate in the UN Stand Up Against Poverty campaign that happens just two days after. It’s a neat activity that schools, classes, any type of group can do. They register, take photos if they like, and stand up on the day. Last year 43 million people participated around the world in a show of unity to ask our leaders to make changes.
5. Read the book “Dust” and look at these pictures. Write a post about global poverty as it relates to this book.
6. Use 3-5 images with creative commons attributions to create a photo story about poverty – you might want to use poetry to help voice your opinion. Check out these posts from the Edublogger with hints about where to find images, how to upload them onto Edublogs and how to correctly attribute them. These posts are mainly written for adults but Sue Waters does use a lot of screenshots to show you how to do things regarding photos.
October 10, 2008 @ 9:11 am
thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. Yes i do watch the Tour de France.
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October 10, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Hello Miss Wyatt
Thanks for that comment!
The email I use isn’t actually my real one, or then I’d b under risk of getting spam mail! So that is why the email you wanted to send me Miss W didn’t work! So if you check my email in this comment, it has my real email address and then you can send your email to me!
This one is a tough one… I’m worried! Do we have to watch all the videos? Do we have to do all those activities? Can we just do 1 or 2? Or must we complete all?
Please let me know soon!
Nadine
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October 10, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
Can we just do a few of the activities? Are these choices or instructions?
Nadine
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October 10, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
Hey Mrs. W! Im normastar,. nadine’s sister, well I want to join the competition but I’m a bit late. Can i join it now even though it is already week four? Because I done week 3’s one before knowing it was part of the comp! I hope you count my post in!
Bye bye Mrs. W! Have a great day!
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October 11, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
Oh mrs W! One more thing, Mrs Pericles is not my teacher, It is funny that people peopke think so though! So what should I do? Hoep to hear soon !
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October 12, 2008 @ 12:17 am
[...] out Miss Wyatt’s post on Blog Action Day from the Student Blogging Competition for [...]
October 12, 2008 @ 12:53 am
Thank you so much, Miss Wyatt and class! Please join us on our 12-hour radio talkathon on Wednesday as well:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blogactionday
We’ll link to this from our official event blog ASAP!
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October 12, 2008 @ 10:09 am
[...] Hi Techno6. Mrs Mirtschin has brought this blog action day post to our attention and it ties in beautifully with the posters we made last week about the 8 millenium goals to end poverty. Check out Mrs Wyatt’s blog for the details. [...]
October 12, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Thanks for your comment Miss W
But how can I turn it into HTML? What are the prizes of the comptetition?
And actually, my sister is in another class, her teacher isn’t Mrs Pericles.
You could comment on my class blog and tell my teacher about the prizes arranged for me and my sister for we are the only ones participating in the SCHOOL or you could say Suburb.. I think.
Class Blog: http://www.allstars.edublogs.org
Nadine
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October 12, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Hi Miss Wyatt.
That is really interesting. I found the game about Nepal really exciting. Though I have not written anything about it on my blog yet, I hope to do it soon!
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October 12, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
[...] Miss Wyatt’s post on Blog Action Day [...]
October 13, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
@Nadine – whenever I write a post with activities, they are for you to choose from. You never have to do them all. Remember we have some bloggers like yourself who have been blogging for a year or so, yet others only just got their blogs as the competition was beginning. So I need to have a variety of activities depending upon the skill level of the bloggers.
@Norma – glad you have decided to take part – a bit of competition there now with Nadine – she might not win your school prize.
@Meghna – glad you are finding some of the actvities interesting – I liked the “girl effect” video – shows what a small change can bring about.
@Easton – we will tey to get on the talk radio but is it Wednesday 15 in Aussie time or Wednesday 15 USA time???
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October 14, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
[...] First, do the post for the competition. [...]
October 16, 2008 @ 10:00 am
Hello, Today I watched two videos about poverty They were very powerful and they made me think alot. Before I had never heard of poverty now I just want to know more about it!
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October 17, 2008 @ 8:50 am
I think that writing this post is such a great idea, so it can raise alot of awareness about poverty. I will try to put as much thought into it as possible. That girl effect really made me think that even I can do somthing to change someones life forever.
Hailey
http://haileya09.edublogs.org/
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November 30, 2008 @ 6:12 am
to answer your question, yes i did just get my cluster map working.
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