Week 6: Are you a BAD writer?
I hope every participant in the student blogging challenge is going to be a BAD writer on Thursday 15 October.
”Why be a BAD writer on just that day?” you ask. “Isn’t Miss W shouting when she uses capital letters in blogging?”
No, she isn’t. She is using an acronym. BAD stands for Blog Action Day. Visit their website to find out more about the origins of this day in the blogging calendar. On this one day in October thousands of bloggers around the world will be speaking as one voice on the topic of climate change. If you register your blog, you can add a badge to your sidebar to prove you are taking part in this world wide event.
What can I write about climate change?
Perhaps you can visit these websites and get some ideas:
- Check out world CO2 emissions here at breathing earth. Which countries have decreased their emissions over the last two years? How did they do it?
- An index of great sites to visit about climate change.
- Visit Canadian eco-kids site.
- Excellent climate change games to play and learn from.
- Visit the BAD partners’ websites to get ideas.
Week 6 challenge: Theme is climate change
- Write a post about climate change – how it affects you personally; what you can do about it at school, home or local community; how it is affecting certain parts of the world etc. Remember to show you have researched the topic by linking words to other websites where you found some great information that you mentioned in your post.
- Create a series of comic strips about climate change. Look at the sidebar on this linked blog to find some great comic websites. Maybe create a superhero relating to climate change and tell his/her story.
- Create a climate change story using images. Remember to give attribution as many other bloggers might visit your blog over the next few weeks.
- Create your own quiz about climate change using MyStudiyo or another quiz site you know. Make sure the questions and answers relate to climate change and show you have researched well.
- Maybe you would rather find out what people consider are the important aspects of climate change – create a poll or survey about the topic. PollDaddy or SurveyMonkey are good sites to do this.
Whatever you do as an activity, remember to make a link back to the BAD site, so they can come and visit your blog. You might word it something like this:
As part of the student blogging challenge, I wrote a post for BAD 2009 on the topic of climate change.
October 11, 2009 @ 10:08 pm
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October 12, 2009 @ 4:15 am
Oh, this week’s challenge is much harder than the other weeks. This is very interesting!
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October 12, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
I’m joining. We were hit by two storms two weeks ago. We are still suffering from its effects – still many flooded areas, a lot were homeless and lost so many loved ones. We haven’t experience this kind of storms in decades. It was devastating. News said its because of climate change.
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October 13, 2009 @ 2:26 am
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October 14, 2009 @ 2:07 am
The weather around here isnt to bad but winter seems a to be coming a bit earlier and end sooner than usual. I personally think that it is because the seasons are shifting months.
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October 15, 2009 @ 9:14 am
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