Last week – Is this goodbye or ……….
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.
- Some statistics about your blog – number of posts/comments/visitors/countries/widgets used etc.
- How many comments did you write on other blogs?
- How has blogging improved your literacy skills?
- Your best post
- Where you have improved the most
- Skills you have learnt
- Why is it good to write with a world wide audience in mind?
- Check this rubric. What score would you give yourself?
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.
- Does another school take over and run another blogging competition?
- Do we run a new competition every ten weeks?
- Do we open a new blog to young bloggers around the world with teachers as admins and interested students as authors, editors? This way every school can have a week to run some activities. We would need to include a calendar to know when it is your school’s turn. Do we include a form for students to register?
What other ideas can you come up with? Please add them as comments to this post.
November 23, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
Sorry, Sue, I guess great blog minds think alike …..sometimes. As I am away quite a bit from school this week, I did want the students to reflect on their work and blogging. I shall direct them to this post and they may add some of your questions as well. I also think it is a great idea to grab a screen shot of their clustrmap, if they have one, and then compare it in a few months time to see if the audience has grown.
Thank you for all your hard work and effort in this, as it has been a most successful venture. The number of blogs on your page shows the potential interest on a global scale.
We have not been as active as I would have liked as our blogs have been down so much at school and we are trying to track the reason for this.
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November 24, 2008 @ 3:20 am
Hi Miss Wyatt
I think that it would be nice to have a new competition every ten weeks, it was lots of fun. I also agree with what you said about some kids not haveing computers at home, and since it is almost summber vacation for you guys, then lost of kids wouldn’t be blogging. Here in Canada, we’re going into Christmas break, and I have a computer at home, and I blog non-stop, so maybe some do have computers at their home. I also want to say what a fabulous ten weeks with the competition, and thatnk you for hosting it!
Bye,
Haley (from Huzzah!)
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November 25, 2008 @ 8:28 am
Perhaps you could post random challenges for any students wanting to do a post. It could be soo random, everyone can relate to it and come up with a worthy, well written post about someething as random as what color your toothbrush is and why.
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November 26, 2008 @ 7:31 am
Thank you so much for doing all of the work that you have. The blogging competition was really fun, and a new experience for me!
John
http://www.johnf09.edublogs.org
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November 27, 2008 @ 12:42 pm
Hi Miss Wyatt!
I would just like to thank you for holding the blogging competition. It was a great way to have other kids have fun and learn the skills of blogging. I congratulate you and the winner of the blogging competition. Again, great job and thank you so very much!
Anna (arrow) http://anna109.edublogs.org
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November 29, 2008 @ 9:24 am
Hey Miss Wyatt,
Just wanted to say thank you so much for making this happen. I enjoyed it so much! (:
DO NOT LET ANOTHRER SCHOOL TAKE OVER THE BLOGGING COMPETITION! I think your students did a wonderful job as well as you did and I think you should continue. I’m not sure what I am going to do every week now, so I hope something gets settled. Good luck to you and your students. !!
Olivia
http://olivia1f09.edublogs.org/
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November 30, 2008 @ 10:55 am
Hey
Im very sad that the competition is over ):
Thank you very very much for setting this up. The competition helped people around the world come together and have fun!
I appreciate all your work towards the competition.
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December 2, 2008 @ 11:10 am
Hey, Mrs. Wyatt!!!!!! =)))))
I am so upset that the competition is over, but I am proud that i accomplished the tasks that were set before me, and that I have created a post that simply describes ME.
Thanks to you, I wouldn’t have been able to see social studies through a different light, and would have never been able to have my own personal website!!!!! This has also been the best class I have ever had because I actually want to learn when I work on it, not only in history, but in the sense of me to learn more about technology and computers. I think everything was perfect throughout this competition, and it left me, and other students, thinking and stretching our brains with information that would not be possible unless you made it happen in a fun and creative way, which also expresses us, too!!!=))))
Thank you so much!!!!! =))))))))
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December 4, 2008 @ 4:30 am
Thank you so much for setting up this thing for us. I really enjoyed it and I hope you do this again some time.
Thanks, Rachel
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December 6, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
Hey Miss W!
Phew! After reading through the rubric I found it pretty tough to decide because if I put a 4 people might think I was exaggerating. But the truth is, I give myself a 4. I have good spelling and my writing is very good as commenters say. Since I didn’t write in my post how much I rate myself, I write it here!
So there you go!
And thank you Miss W for this opportunity to be part of a major comp!
Nadine
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