Week 5 – Whose blog do I enjoy returning to?
We are now half way through the competition, so we need to conduct some sort of review. I would like both teachers and students taking part in this blogging competition to head over to Sue Waters special competition review post on The Edublogger and leave her a comment.
This week’s activities are all about keeping up the conversation. I recently had a teacher from Holland write a post about starting out blogging. She included two links to my posts on avatars and introducing yourself. This meant she left a trackback or ping to my class blog. Some of you will have received trackbacks or pings when I have linked your name in one of my posts.
I then visited her class blog to write a comment and check out all her students’ blogs that were on her sidebar blogroll. Sofia, one of her students, then came back to my blog with this comment:
MS. W,
How did you find my blog? My teacher recommended your blog to my class, but i never thought that you would find it!! Thanks a lot for writing a comment though…
Sofia
In my class I have about 20 students with their own blogs. How do I remember their URL? How do I get to their blogs easily? Well, I use my ‘blogroll’ on the sidebar of my blog below my flag counter. It has a variety of titles – 2008 students, games to help your skills, our school blogs, talk to these students, teacher blogs, wikis to visit. On the blogroll, I link to all those blogs that I visit often or have interesting activities to do.
I often give you clues on how to do certain activities but this week, you are going to look at both a written post from The Edublogger which has screenshots included and a video from Edublogs telling you how to create your blogroll. Make sure your computer can use a flash player to watch the video. It has a .swf ending to the URL.
Once you have created at least five links in your blogroll, come back here to answer the poll.
Still got time to spare, then visit some more blogs or check out the recent posts.
Add a comment at this post about three people whose blogs you visit often and why?
Which was more useful when creating your blogroll?
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October 19, 2008 @ 10:49 am
hey this is flurogreen. You left me a comment about how to set up a skype call. I’m only a student and haven’t had much experience setting up a call but if you ask murch my Computer teacher then she will be able to help you. Go to her blog at http://murch.globalteacher.org.au she will be able to help she is a legend of a teacher. Oh by the way a very nice blog. Very interesting
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October 19, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
Oh how very difficult to decide! I would actually go for these 3 people: Meghna, Stephie and Cointha. They are all very talented, friendly and special.
Need to rush. Soon I shall explain why.
Nadine
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October 19, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
Miss W,
Anyway, I chose Cointha because she writes so well you can’t take your eyes off her posts and how much effort, passion and voice she puts into the posts she creates. She can be extremely creative at times too! Even her comments are positive, pleasing and make you look forward to every single one of them. I hope to keep in touch for more amazing things she yet has to write. And already, she has made a friendly, nice and good mate.
After thinking VERY hard, my 3 choices were ( Even though all my friends are really talented and special to me) Cointha, Stephie, and Meghna. I wish I could choose more though!
As for Stephie, she is really friendly, fun and nice. She always has something to say and writes really interesting posts. Me and Stephie have become really close friends now, because of all the support and encouragement she ha raised for me! Even if I haven’t met her, I always wish I could. Even her stories are really dramatic, and she’s always commenting on my blog which makes me smile.
Meghna, she is special. She is REALLY good at writing, some people say I am REALLY good at writing too, which makes me and her alike in something. She also always has something amazing to talk about, and is supportive, funny, interesting and friendly. We both have a few things in common too, and how she gives me positive information and good comments, it makes me feel really excited and proud to have a friend like her.
I am proud to have friends like all my friends, everyone on my blog roll and I am always welcome to meet new people!!
P.S So Miss Wyatt, is what we have to do just add 5 people to our blog-roll? AND keep up the conversation on our blogs and of others?
Nadine
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October 19, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
@flurogreen thanks for the info about Murch, remember we met in Tasmania, might Skype her sometime with questions
@Nadine thoughtful comments again, for this week it is add at least 5 to blogroll, you might want to divide yours into smaller subgroups; answer the poll; comment on this post which you have done; and finally visit Sue Waters competition review post in first paragraph.
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October 20, 2008 @ 10:08 am
lyme and old lyme got its name because that is where lyme disease started.
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October 20, 2008 @ 10:40 am
well we used the smart board. our microphone has a usb cord on the end. Just connect it to the smart board and it should work. Hope all goes well as skyping is a lot of fun. When I did it I loved it!!
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October 20, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
Dear Miss W,
Our class would be delighted to be added as a Dutch class to your blog competition. Your posts are very inspiring and helpful to us as we start the art of blogging. Thank you so much for all the thoughtful comments you have left on our blog posts. We plan to start contributing to the conversation to become part of this amazing community of bloggers.
Sincerely, The Grade 7s in The Netherlands
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October 20, 2008 @ 11:41 pm
[...] and last this week is the two requirements for the Blogging Competition. Ms. Wyatt gives you the directions for both on her blog. You will need to set-up a blog roll on your blog, and Ms. Water’s is [...]
October 21, 2008 @ 1:48 am
I have to say meeting new people has to be the best part about having a blog. bloging is starting to get very interesting. my three are blogging to other people,talking to my old teachers that we have on the blog.
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October 21, 2008 @ 1:54 am
Meeting so much new people.
Yes.I think that blogging is so intresting because it’s cool to learn about all the cool things in different countries.
I like mostly everthing in the competition.I think it’s vary fun.
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October 21, 2008 @ 5:57 am
The three blogs I visit most often are Brian’s blog, my class blog, and Mohammed’s blog because they are great blogs with lots of interesting posts and I use my class blog for class.
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October 21, 2008 @ 6:02 am
Hello Miss W.
thanks for the helping hand in getting my social vibe on my edublogs,
but i’m not sure if i can put the badge up since there is a picture of me on it.
One of your students, Aaron, invited me onto his blogroll and had no clue what it was, but now i do.
thanks for commenting my blog.
hope to keep in touch.
sarah
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October 22, 2008 @ 11:08 am
[...] you set up your blogroll, visit Miss Wyatt, answer her survey, and write a comment on her [...]
October 23, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
I love blogging about things that are important to me and things that are just plain fun. This competition really helped me learn a lot about blogging. I would blog more often if I was better with computers.
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October 27, 2008 @ 11:02 pm
Thank you for mentioning me on your blog, I am verry onnored!!! I’m really interested in the competition, can you “enrole” me for it?
(now that I’m famouse i should think of something smart to say)
Aurevoi,
Sofia
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October 27, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
I would like to join the competion.
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October 28, 2008 @ 2:24 am
Sup Sue or do you prefer Hey Sue,
Hey Sue is kind of boring ;D Well, this blogging competeion is awesome! I learned so much from this. This is stuff I would have never done or looked forward to doing, but now its an activity that I enjoy doing. ;D Well, I hope to keep chatting with you. TTYL Peace!
PSYCHADELIC YO!!!
-JuAnItO
P.S. You should check out my page!
http://juanr140.edublogs.org/
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October 28, 2008 @ 2:28 am
Oops! Sorry Ms.W.
I mistaked your page for Sue’s page.
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November 12, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Hi I am thehippohouse and I really like your blogs. The thing I like most is your avatar. It looks really kool. Your blogs is the best.
thehippohouse
Bye
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November 12, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
My blog is http://www.thehippohouse.edublogs.org.
Also I like your theme
thehippohouse
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