Archive forFebruary, 2009

Have a go to win a prize

February 21, 2009 @ 1:13 pm · Filed under Internet savvy, To do, blogging, challenge09, competitions, have-a-go

Did you read my previous post about Sue Waters and the birthday celebrations at the Edublogger?

You didn’t?

Maybe you would like to have ago at this activity as a pre run for the student blogging challenge this year.

Well you still have a few days until the end of February to get your post completed and linked back to the Edublogger.  These are the topics to choose from:

  1. Advice for doing blog makeovers i.e. improving your blog
  2. Tips for using blogs with students
  3. Using tools like VoiceThread, Voki, mystudiyo, Animoto, SlideShows, Google Documents with students and embedding in blogs posts
  4. Advice for writing better blog posts
  5. What makes good comments or commenting tips
  6. Images in blog posts
  7. Tips for building blog audience
  8. Ideas for getting educators involved with using web technology
  9. Favorite blog widgets
  10. Images generators (e.g. sign generators, newspaper generators), avatars, online graph tools etc that you can use with students
  11. Advice on setting up or using class blogs
  12. Tips for connecting with other classrooms

 

Check out the posts written by these students.

Nicholas , Mallorie , Cammie , Julie ,Karen , Ashley, Kris, Hayden and  Catie

Remember to make a pingback or trackback to the edublogger post about the birthday celebrations.

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Are you ready for the 2009 student blogging challenge?

February 19, 2009 @ 11:29 am · Filed under activities

Thanks to all the new classes who have registered to take part in the 2009 student blogging challenge.

I have been reading comments on both this blog and the Edublogger, so thought a few reminders might be helpful, especially as there is only a bit over a week till the challenge starts.

Reminders:

  • Have you registered your blog here on this form  as either a class blog or student blog?
  • Have you added this class blog URL to your blogroll? Makes it easier for both students and teachers to find the challenges.
  • Have you checked out the participants page above my avatar?  This will continually be updated with the URLs of those taking part in the challenge.
  • Please check that the link to your blog is working correctly and get back to me with the correct URL as soon as possible so it is ready for use in the challenge.
  • Have you added this classblog to your RSS feed reader?  You will then know when a new challenge has been added. But there will also be other posts not related to the challenge as I will be working with my own class as well on my blog.
  • Permission is given for participating teachers to copy or remix any posts relating to the challenge into their own class blogs so students can comment there.  Just acknowledge somewhere that it is part of the 2009 student blogging challenge with a link back to this classblog.
  • Make sure students are internet savvy and realise they must only use their first name  when replying to comments or they have anickname they use that their teacher knows.
  • Check out the community blog run by the students and teachers who took part in last year’s challenge.

Finally, enjoy the challenge and if you have any ideas for challenges or questions about the challenge, please send them to me at tasteach56(at)gmail(dot)com or leave as a comment here.

If you check the participants page, you will notice there are a few classes where usernames and passwords might be needed to write a comment. This means it might be difficult for students outside that school to add comments – if those teachers involved could contact me, we might be able to organise something.

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Well done

February 18, 2009 @ 12:17 pm · Filed under starting out

We’ve now had two students coment on which theme we should have for our class blog.

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Welcome back in 2009

February 15, 2009 @ 9:13 am · Filed under Internet savvy, To do, have-a-go, starting out

A new class means we need a new look for the blog.  This class blog is going to play an important part in your school life this year, so we need to change a few things around to make it more yours.

What about the tagline?

Do we need to look at different themes?

Hopefully by Easter, many of you will have your own blogs.  Those who don’t want their own individual blog will be added as users on the class blog – which is not as much fun as having your own blog.

So your first blogging activity is to visit the blogs of other students, keep a record of the blog themes you like and write a comment here about which theme you think we should have and why.  The name of the theme is usually at the very bottom of the blog.  The one we have now is ‘Rubrick”

On the right-hand sidebar of this blog is a list of students who have blogs.  Also go to this blog ‘Bringing us Together‘ and visit the students mentioned here.

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