The student blogging competition is now over!!
So I will have time to spare to do ….
I have finished writing reports.
So I will have time to spare to do …..
What do you suggest I should be doing over the next couple of months once I am on holidays?
Last week we had our first official Skype call with Ashley in Connecticut, USA. It was 1pm our time and 9pm in America. Students asked questions, talked about their pets and interests, compared schooling in USA and at our school. It was an exciting 45 minute call with students using the webcam and smartboard to make the call more exciting at both ends.
Well, it is going to happen again!!
This time we will be talking with Grade 6 students in British Columbia, Canada. It will be 9am Friday our time and 2pm Thursday their time. But to make the activity more interesting, we need to think about what we want to show them. We also need to think about what questions we want to ask them.
Please comment about what you think:
Well, this is the official last week activity for the 2008 student blogging competition run by this classblog. As always, at the end of a period of study, we all have to evaluate ourselves – Where did we go well? Where could we improve? I notice that Mrs Mirtschin has jumped ahead of me with some of her student posts about a blog.
But here is what I would like to see in your last post. Remember this is all about you and your blog.
Now we also need to think about the future. What is going to happen now? The schools in the Southern Hemisphere are heading towards summer and their holidays – perhaps some students don’t have computers at home so won’t be blogging as often.
What other ideas can you come up with? Please add them as comments to this post.
This week is the penultimate week of the challenge. It is your last chance to shine in front of your teacher (who might be assessing you for blogging), your class mates and your readers around the world.
This week’s challenge involves research of one of the topics below. You must find at least two relevant websites or blogs on the topic that you can link to and include at least two images with attribution.
In your post, you must mention why you chose this topic and what relevance it has to your life as well as information you found interesting about the topic.
The year 2008 has been declared the International Year or Decade of the …….
Next week is the last week of the challenge and will involve you assessing yourself and your blogging over this last ten weeks. You also need to think about what might happen after next week … just think this week and add your thoughts to my post next week.
WOW! I checked our clustrmap today and at 4.30pm on Thursday 13th November we had just clocked over the 10,000th visitor. Our class blog began in March 2008 as a way of teaching students to be internet savvy as well as for them to comment on posts from both students and myself. It was the first blog created in our school and since then we have had other class blogs as well as individual student blogs created.
Posts on this blog have ranged from jigsaw puzzles to netball to fighter jets as well as creating cartoons and avatars. Up until the beginning of September we had received about 4000 visitors. Then Miss Wyatt decided to run a world wide student blogging competition and since then the number of visitors have soared.
I wonder how many countries you can name that have visited our blog?
The first three students to name at least 20 different countries will get their name on my class blogroll until the end of our school year about 18 December.
Students, you have now visited many class blogs and student blogs while taking part in the competition. Do you want to nominate one or more of these blogs as part of the 2008 Edublogs Awards?
There are a few categories you might want to nominate in:
There are two things you need to do to nominate:
This all has to be finished by the end of November, so get nominating – then check again in December to actually vote for the blogs you think should win.
This week, 10-16 November, is National Recycling Week in Australia. Since November 1996, Planet Ark has been running this event and in Australia, we sure need to be reminded to recycle.
OECD figures show Australia to be one of the world’s biggest per capita producers of waste – at an alarming rate of 2.25 kilograms per person per day.
Check out the information about recycling here. It includes videos to watch and fact sheets.
How can you get involved in recycling? Find out here. Some activity sheets you might like to download.
Week 8 activities to choose from
Students were asked to write about poverty for Blog Action Day. This is Mallorie’s photo story and a poem by Julya.
Students wrote about where they lived and where to visit if you were a tourist. Come with Nadine on a tour of her state.
Why did Tim choose a pirate avatar? Check it out here.
Festivals from India, Australia, Muslim culture, Chinese culture, Lithuania, USA
I hope everyone has included at least five different blogs on their blogroll. If you haven’t, then do that before starting this activity. This week, you are going to extend the range of blogs that you are reading. To do this, you must follow these steps:
Go to the competition participant page and click on the link to a student who you haven’t visited before or is from a different country.You can now see why the activity is called “Count three out.” You have to click three students or blogrolls before making a comment. To finish this activity, do the above steps for at least three different students on the participation page. If you can’t click on a blogroll link, then go back to the previous student and click on a different link.
Now your final activity this week is to write a post about those blogs you visited and the posts you made a comment on. Give reasons why you chose those posts. Did you get to a blog outside of the students or classes participating in the challenge?
