A new year means a new challenge
Last year, Sue Waters and I ran a very successful international student blogging competition. We had classes from 9 countries taking part involving about 500 students. Well, it is happening again this term/semester but it will be a challenge rather than a competition.
It will begin the first week of March which gives me a couple of weeks to settle back into school and get my new class into the fantastic world of blogging.
What do you have to do now?
REGISTER as either a class blog or a student blog. This means filling in the form below preferably by the end of February. Then keep watching this blog to find out what your challenges are. There will be one challenge per week, but you might have three choices within the one challenge depending upon the amount of blogging you have already done. Choose something that will be of interest to you, something that will be CHALLENGING.
As we want you to make friends of your readers, there will be a page listing all the participants in the challenge. Make sure you visit this often and begin conversations with other students around the world. The students from last year’s challenge are still continuing their conversations at this blog that was created at the beginning of 2009. Maybe you could visit them before our challenge starts.
If you have an aggregator like google reader, bloglines, pageflakes, netvibes or Yahoo!, then make sure you check out the page we will create called ‘Updated Posts”. If you don’t know what an aggregator is, then check out this link from Wikipedia.
January 18, 2009 @ 9:39 am
Okay what am I missing? Where is updated post page? I’ve looked?
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January 18, 2009 @ 9:50 am
…and I can’t find the form.
@Sue Waters–she said she is going to create the page….I think ;0
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January 18, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
@Paul I think she was trying to confuse us by saying there is a page link for updated posts. Thought I had finally lost it
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January 18, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
Sue – I suggest you make it even more obvious about saying complete this Form below if you want to join this challenge – and include the link. Because the Google Form is being stripped out in Google Reader so it’s easily missed. Also when I visited your post this morning the Form wasn’t even loading.
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January 18, 2009 @ 6:58 pm
Dear Miss W,
Thank you so much for putting a comment on my new blog. As you can see, I am a blogging beginner! However, my colleagues and I are very excited about the potential of Web2 technology to inspire and motivate young people, and I am hosting a conference in March to look at this whole area, for all the professionals in our Children’s Services team. i work in a small London Borough called Tower Hamlets, right next to the Tower of London, and I am Head of e-Learning there.
Good luck with your competition above!
Hope to hear from you again soon,
Best wishes,
Terry
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January 19, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Sorry Paul and Sue,
Realised that every time I changed something in the post and re-saved, that the form was being taken out. So now it should be OK.
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January 19, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
Thanks for the opportunity to go in this challenge for 2009 Sue. We have a new class, new to blogging in 2009. Just one thing, could you please change the blog url that I submitted on the google form. I wrote in the wrong one. Our new class blog url is http://annmcd.globalstudent.org.au/
Thanks
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January 21, 2009 @ 5:29 am
I am just letting you know that I will be doing the Competition.
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January 21, 2009 @ 5:30 am
Hi Mrs. W!
I’m so happy you’re having another blogging competition – I had a great time with the first one.
Can’t wait to get started, good luck to everyone!
>Sam
Come visit my blog!
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January 21, 2009 @ 9:19 am
I can’t wait for the blogging challenges.
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January 22, 2009 @ 6:20 am
Hello Mrs. W
I can’t wait until the first post is up. I’m super excited!
Katie
P.s if you get a chance you should check out my blog.
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January 22, 2009 @ 7:18 am
I can’t wait until blogging competition starts
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January 22, 2009 @ 8:53 am
I can not wait until the new blogging competion starts in February.
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January 23, 2009 @ 1:48 am
I hope i do better with this comp.
i didn’t do so well with the last one.
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January 23, 2009 @ 3:21 am
Welcome to the new year Ms. Wyatt I hope you had a great summer because we all had a great Christmas.
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January 23, 2009 @ 9:22 am
Thank you so much Ms. Wyatt for continuing this because I really enjoyed blogging. So thanks again… can’t wait to start! :] xOliviax
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January 23, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Hi Ms. Wyatt.
I’m looking forward to the new competition.
http://meghane09.edublogs.org
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January 23, 2009 @ 11:23 am
Hello Ms. Wyatt,
I was glad to hear you were creating a new blogging competition and I say I would be happy to join this competition.
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January 23, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
Yay a new blogging competition! I’m thrilled that you decided to start a new one! The last one was such a hit!
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January 24, 2009 @ 12:29 am
I missed the good ol’ blogging challenge, the until it ends this will be a BLAST!!!
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January 24, 2009 @ 12:38 am
I can’t wait for the competition to start. I love blogging and sharing my thougt with the world.
Chrissy <33
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January 24, 2009 @ 12:42 am
Hi
I took the pictures at home my mum is a carer and is releasing the devils in febuary. So she told me to take some pics.
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January 24, 2009 @ 3:58 am
Finally a new blogging competition!! When I found out I came strait here because I can’t wait to start the new Compitetion. Thank you, I bet more and more people will come this time. I wish everyone good luck!
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January 24, 2009 @ 4:15 am
hi
im herky and i love to see that your staring a new challenge for this new year
http://www.herkyf09.edublogs.org
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January 24, 2009 @ 9:24 am
im glad to be doing it, as i also did the one a few months ago.
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January 26, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
Thank you for giving all of this the opportunity.We are all very excited!
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January 26, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
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January 27, 2009 @ 6:30 am
I bet this Blogging Challenge will be as good as the last one!
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January 27, 2009 @ 7:57 am
hey miss w.
i am soooo excited that you are starting a new competition. btw…is the new competition going to be stubc09??? just wondering.lol
sammm<3
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pinkyprincess Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
yes i’m prettysure.
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January 27, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
Hi,
Can’t wait for the new challenge to begin. Bring it on!
Kim
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January 27, 2009 @ 9:49 pm
Hi!
We are Priscila and Steph , from Argentina , great idea and would like to join , asking our teacher for some questions about the blogging competition.We also like the blogs you do after the competition , they are a great way to keep in touch with friends.
Sure we will join
Priscila
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February 4, 2009 @ 3:24 am
Hello,
Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. I’m so excited for the new challenge.
Can’t wait!!!!
-Amanda-
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February 4, 2009 @ 4:17 am
Hey,
We have already applied! Thanks for the link
Priscila and Stephie.
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February 4, 2009 @ 10:19 pm
I can’t wait until the new competition. I love the blogs that we have to write about every week. Those are good ones to write about too! I hope you like my blog when you come to it this new cometition.
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February 6, 2009 @ 3:27 am
Ms. Wyatt, I visited your class blog because I had to find an international school that used blogging in the classroom. I am a junior at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I researched your blog for my educational media class and found your classes blog to be quite interesting. This is the URL for our class blog http://edm310spring09.blogspot.com/. And here is the URL for my personal blog http://quimbymedm310spring09.blogspot.com/. I would like to ask if it would be possible to enter into a conversation you, other teachers at your school, or students about technology and how it can and should be used to further good educational practices.
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Terry Reply:
February 6th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Hi Matthew – I’m interested in that too…I’m not a student but an ICT advisor in a London Borough – UK – with 55,000 children and young people. I want to know if young people can access learning better through web2 tools. We are running a conference on 4th March and would be interested in feedback before then…Good luck with your studies,
Terry
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February 6, 2009 @ 3:04 pm
Hey Ms. Wyatt!! I havn’t talked to you in a while! How it been goin on over there? Well I really hope your haven a great time! I was just wondering… Where do you put all the questions for us to answer? I don’t know maybe I’m just not looking hard enough… Ya so anyways… Cya!
♠
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February 6, 2009 @ 11:36 pm
Hi again!
Just a little question , we have just applied but , Do we have to appear on the list?
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.
Prisci and Steph
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February 9, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
Hi again!
We’ve just checked the list but we can’t find our blog…on the 2009 participants right?
kisses and hope to hear from you soon.
Priscila and stephie
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February 9, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
Hi Sue
I am very keen to join the blogging challenge. I have 4 year7 classes that are beginning their first year of blogging and as we are just getting started, I thought it better to begin with a whole class blog, eventually leading to students having their own. Is it possible to participate in the challenge as a whole class?
Looking forward to a year of blogging and collaborative learning
Vanessa
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February 11, 2009 @ 5:38 am
Miss W,
Thank you for commenting on my blog and letting me know about this competition!
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February 11, 2009 @ 11:12 am
Hi Miss Wyatt,
I am very excited to start the new competition!! Thank you very much for checking out my blog and leaving a comment! BTW-the musical was a huge success and I had so much fun! I’m sad it is over, but it was an amazing experience that I will never forget. I’m looking forward to more productions in the future.
Looking forward to some more blogging!
-Jenna http://jennaa09.edublogs.org
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February 13, 2009 @ 1:55 am
I can’t wait for the new blogging competition! I think it is going to be really fun.
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February 13, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
What a fantastic way to really get communication going… I should have done this last year with my 2008 blog we did it the hard way with the comments, so being involved in this would be fantastic. If anyone out there would like to communicate prior to the start of the competition/challenge with a New Zealand Y7 class our address is: melvilleroom8.blogspot.com
Looking forward to the challenge,
Mr Webb and Room 8, Melville Intermediate School, Hamilton, New Zealand
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February 13, 2009 @ 6:58 pm
Hey Miss W
WHAT A NEW YEAR! 2009! WOW!
Well… unfortunately I cannot participate in the comp this year because High school has shown itself to be a challenge already, and it will be too hard to go on with both blogging, high school work, assignments, extra work and so on.
BUT HAVE FUN! And all the best to the fantastic competitors. You are all winners and legends.
Have a ball!
Love from High school, Nadine
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February 14, 2009 @ 7:43 am
Thank you, Miss Wyatt, for leaving the invitation to the challenge on our class blog. I have submitted the required information, and the students and I cannot wait to begin!
Thanks, Amy
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February 16, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
heyy thank you miss wytee dfor the comment u left on our blog:D:D and i cant wait for the challenge
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February 16, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
I’m excited to share this challenge with my students. Thanks for providing this opportunity!
Ginny Hoke
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February 16, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
This is a superb idea. I am going to speak about it on my education blog, Issues in Academics, at http://issuesinacademics.blogspot.com/
I am sure some of my students might be interested.
Roomy Naqvy
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February 17, 2009 @ 6:46 am
Thanks for the invite on my blog!!! If my students have their own blogs, do I need to enter our class blog too?
Lisa
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February 18, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
Just started a class blog this year. I teach a grade 3/4 class at Princes Hill Primary School in Melbourne. I look forward to further contact with you and hopefully some kind of communication between our students. Our blog is:
grade34t2009.edublogs.org
Your blog looks fantastic!
Cheers,
Tim
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February 19, 2009 @ 11:29 am
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February 19, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
I teach 6th through 8th graders in Denver, Colorado (USA) and am really looking forward to this challenge! We have been blogging on our private ning network all year, and are just now opening up a public blog (http://ourstudentvoice.wordpress.com/) for those students who want to join our after school blogging club. They are very excited!
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February 21, 2009 @ 3:35 am
I’m very excited about this blogging challenge. I just started blogging this year and it’s so much fun. I can’t wait to see what we are going to do!
Galen
mhsgalen.edublogs.org
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February 21, 2009 @ 11:38 am
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March 1, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
Hi Sue
I just rfegistered myself with a class (ictatputauaki.wikispaces.com) – it should have been Whaea Kim (she is the teacher) – sorry! Please
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March 3, 2009 @ 8:30 am
Miss W. , I am already entered in the challenge for my personal blog but I have a school work blog, interesting project blog, and a portfolio blog so do you advise I link those to my blog or what should I do to also share those blogs of mine.
http://marnies604.edublogs.org/ – contact me at my blog
_Marnie
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March 4, 2009 @ 6:40 am
What do I have to do to join if my group of students all want to enter with their own blog? How should I fill in the form? I’m a little confused.
Thanks,
Veronica
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March 12, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
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March 13, 2009 @ 8:18 am
how do i create a blog i filled out the form what now ??????????????????
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Miss W. Reply:
March 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Courtlyn,
The best idea would be to check with your teacher or the computer technology person at your school. There are some good blog sites such as Edublogs, which is what this blog uses, or there are others such as 21classes, blogmeister, blogger and wordpress. Come back here and leave another comment when you have begun your blog and then I will add you to the blogging challenge.
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March 23, 2009 @ 10:41 am
This sounds so cool! I’m going to ask my teacher if we can participate as a class!
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April 12, 2009 @ 8:36 pm
How many Kazakh people in GWA?
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April 12, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
Where are you my Friends?!
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April 13, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
There are loads of Kazakh people in GWA!!!!!!
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April 13, 2009 @ 10:34 pm
WOW we needid to do a bloging challeng earlier.
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May 11, 2009 @ 10:16 am
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