Our class blog has been nominated in the 2009 Edublog Awards in the ‘Best class blog’ category. It is an honour to be nominated for the second year running in this category. If you would like to vote for this class blog, then please visit this site. Remember you can only have one vote per [...]
Tuesday 8 December is your last chance to nominate blogs under many categories for the ‘Edublogs Awards 2009‘. My nominations are included here: Best individual blog – Sue Waters Best individual tweeter – ShellTerrell Best class blog – Mrs Yollis’ grade 3 class Best student blog – Jess Jessica is a student in my class [...]
Here are some great posts, polls and comics from students and teachers who took part in BAD 2009. Remember to take part in any polls you find on student blogs. This will help them write another post about the results in a month or so. Ashley linked correctly to the BAD website with her going [...]
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 [...]
One of the participants in this blogging challenge has also organized her own ‘green’ challenge. I know we have many students and classes interested in our environment and how we can help improve it for future generations. Please read her blurb below, and join in her challenge as well. Hi! I am needing more bloggers [...]
I have just checked out the information sent to teachers about websites and contests and found a few that some of you might be interested in looking at. Name a road With the Hobart International Airport expanding they are needing four roads to be given appropriate names. You might need to check out this website [...]
Most answers to this quiz can be found in Wikipedia, but you might have to visit a couple of pages to find the answers. This could be used as an example of Activity 1 in the Edublogger Student Competition. Note you must be 13 or older to be able to create your own quiz in [...]
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 [...]
Teachers, it is your turn now. As I mentioned at the beginning of the competition, I would include on my blogroll the winners from each school. I know it is going to be extremely hard to make a decision, so I am prepared to include 4 students from each class who you think have [...]
Our blog has been nominated by Sue Waters for the Best New Blog for 2008 in the Edublogs Awards. If you want to vote for us, please go to this website and cast your vote. Parents, students, teachers, grandparents, neighbours – anyone can vote for our blog. I’m not sure how long voting will be open for, [...]
