Have a go to win a prize
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:
- Advice for doing blog makeovers i.e. improving your blog
- Tips for using blogs with students
- Using tools like VoiceThread, Voki, mystudiyo, Animoto, SlideShows, Google Documents with students and embedding in blogs posts
- Advice for writing better blog posts
- What makes good comments or commenting tips
- Images in blog posts
- Tips for building blog audience
- Ideas for getting educators involved with using web technology
- Favorite blog widgets
- Images generators (e.g. sign generators, newspaper generators), avatars, online graph tools etc that you can use with students
- Advice on setting up or using class blogs
- 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.
February 21, 2009 @ 10:33 pm
Hi!
we have just posted about the widgets!
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February 21, 2009 @ 11:45 pm
Oh , right it was just we found it interesting
Because our blog is not by edublogger <3
thank you anyway!
We would prefer just to be on the blogging competition
Can´t wait it to start!
kisses
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February 23, 2009 @ 2:54 am
We have already begun a “facelift” for our Blog site. We have added a new Challenge09 category with links that we will visit regularly. We are the only class who has a blog on our campus and I have 8 special needs students. We are about to set a precedence and we are pumped!!! Let’s go with it.
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February 23, 2009 @ 2:09 pm
I made a post for the birthday thing I just dont know where to out it
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February 25, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Hi Sue
We are all looking forward to beginning the challenge next month, however we have come across a problem, the NSW DET has blocked student access to edublogs, and thus everytime I want students to access their blog site, I need to log them in under my DET username and password. This is making the blogging process very slow and somewhat tedious.
Did you encounter the same problem in Tasmania?
How did you overcome this problem?
Vaness
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February 25, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
Hi again
I contacted tech support who told me they would only allow students to view and contribute to nominated sites (not all edublog sites) once I had adhered to a number of conditions, including that only members of the blog may comment on the blog. They have also blocked students from viewing/using voicethread and many photo upload applications. I have been working through internet safety (cyberquoll and cyber cafe) and have talked with students about writing appropriate comments and posts. I will continue to work on the NSW DET and maybe with a bit of pressure and insight they will lift the bans.
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February 25, 2009 @ 9:39 pm
How do you link your posts back to Edublogger? I love to get my students involved in this challenge but not sure about that part.
Mrs. Heaton
4th Grade – Mossy Oaks Elementary School
Beaufort, SC
http://www.mrsheatonsclass1.blogspot.com
eve.heaton@beaufort.k12.sc.us
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February 26, 2009 @ 9:16 am
Sue,
How do we post and link BACK to Edublogger?? for the Challenge 09?
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March 18, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
HIIII!!!?!?!?!?!!Hi Mrs Jacobs and Miss W.!! Thanks for that comments. I am a student from 6A and I will happy to see another students comments on TED blog!?
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