Ideas for student blogging competition (stubc08)

G’day teachers and students,

Here is your chance to add some ideas of what you think could be included in the student blogging competition.  So far the following have been mentioned in comments to my various posts:

Describe a certain aspect of their daily routine, like what their school is like?

What (appropriate) slang words they use to refer to various things like friends, food, family, pets, music, etc.

We have been having fun with wordles as well and so far, we have just made wordles on favourite things, friends etc.

Last week we created mind maps in bubbl.us to help reinforce something new they have learnt.

Blog writing with a limit like Twitter, that makes for concise writing

She was eager to have an avatar and we couldn’t find an adequate site.

These activities are expanded on in my page:

For my students part in the competition, I will be pleased if they have started commenting on a wider range of blogs; they have carried a conversation through the comments: they have asked more questions when commenting and posting: they have added some more links to their blogroll that are outside our school blogs; they have been a bit more thoughtful and reflective in their comments and posts and begun adding links and images preferably correctly attributed.

From a student:

This competition should be judged by how well people write comments, how MUCH comments they have altogether, keeping up the conversation, and if that person makes EXCELLENT comments to do with the post. That is all I can think of.  The page you wrote for that Comment- Challenge was so good with such simple and clear instructions that I actually thought it too was a student version.

stubc08

 

3 Comments »

  1. Ideas for the student blogging competition | Technology in our classroom Said,

    August 26, 2008 @ 9:05 pm

    [...] on the right of my blog you will find a new page with some ideas that have already been sent to me for activities in the student blogging challenge.  Feel free to [...]

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  2. Anne Baird Said,

    August 28, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

    Hello Miss Wyatt, (is it Sue?) I am about to have our Year 8 students begin a blogging journey. We have had great success with our Year 3/4 students who are loving the blogging process. http://burners.globalstudent.org.au/
    I see that your students are well underway with the blogging competition. I don’t think at this stage we are ready to undertake this. But what I would like to do is to use some of your links and ideas to prompt an interest for my students as I think the biggest challenge is to have students write posts that are purposeful and meaningful to them and to their learning. so thanks in anticipation. I will be ensuring that our student come to visit your blog and hopefully your students blogs as well.
    cheers Anne

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  3. Jan Smith Said,

    September 9, 2008 @ 10:19 pm

    How about a blog make-over with special needs in mind? This can give your students a different lens through which to see their content and design. Is the font too small? Are animations distracting? Do the colour choices cause the text to ‘move’, or is the colour combination such that content is not accessible to colour blind readers (there is a tool to check this somewhere–bet it was Larry Ferlazzo or Paul Hamilton)

    You and your students are doing great work. Cheers!

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