I’m sorry to say we are at the last challenge for 2011. Remember we start again in March 2012, on this blog again. But even though the challenge is over, you can still keep up with your new friends by visiting their blogs and leaving comments. The list of class and student participants will be left up on the blog until early February 2012.
Activity 1 – students and classes
Please evaluate the challenge mentioning something about the following topics:
Registration: Is two weeks early enough for registration to begin before the first challenge?
Subscription: Did you subscribe by RSS or email in order to get the posts as soon as they were published?
Student and class participants: How useful are these pages in the header of the blogging challenge?
The challenges:
- Did you visit the actual challenge on the blog each week or did your teacher have a post on your class blog?
- Which challenges were the most useful?
- Which challenges were the most interesting?
- What would be some other topics you would like included in future challenges?
- Are more tutorial type challenges needed? eg how to make a link in your post
- Were the ‘Visit these’ posts useful?
- Were the challenges where you had to embed ie polls, cartoons, wallwisher etc interesting or could you not embed due to being a free Edublogs blog or a blogging platform that didn’t allow embedding?
- Were there enough chances to visit blogs from overseas and make links with other students/classes?
- Classes that registered – were there enough activities specific to classes?
- Did you make global connections?
- Anything else you would like to mention about the challenge in particular
Activity 2: This is an audit of your blog since the beginning of September 2011.
- How many posts did you write?
- How many were school based, your own interests or set by the challenge?
- How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers or overseas students?
- Which post received the most comments? Why do you think that happened?
- Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?
- Did you change blog themes at all and why?
- How many widgets do you have? Do you think this is too many or not enough?
- How many overseas students do you have on your blogroll?
Now ask another student and teacher/parent from your school who might not have read your blog to do an audit. Sit beside them while they navigate around your blog, record what you observe as they interact with your blog. When finished, ask them the following questions:
- What were your first impressions of this blog?
- What captured your attention?
- What distracted you on the blog?
- What suggestions can you give me to improve my blog?
Activity 3: Nominating a blog for the Edublog Awards 2011
This year we would like classes to nominate two blogs they feel are excellent student blogs. They can be blogs from anywhere in the world. Choose a student from your class to write about the nominations in a post after you have discussed this as a class. eg best student blog or best new blog.
Teachers you may also take part in the nominations but you might like to check out the other sections where nominations are available.
Mentors we would also like you to nominate one or two of the blogs you have been mentoring to go in either the best student blog or new blog sections.
Students we would prefer you work with your teachers to nominate some great student blogs, but if there is a student blog (not from your class or school) that you feel deserves a nomination then write a post and fill in the nomination form. Remember, as a student, you can’t nominate a blog from your class or school.
Here are the rules you will need to follow to make your nomination valid. Notice you only have until the end of November to put in your nominations. Remember to write your post and then send in this nomination form with a link to your blogpost.
Also remember to visit the Edublog Awards page to vote between 2nd and 13th December. You will only be able to vote for one in each section. Winners are announced on 14th December.
After the challenge is over
Continue:
- earning rice at the free rice website but make sure you are logged in to the student blogging challenge group.
- visiting your friend’s blogs
- writing posts over the Christmas period
- visiting new student blogs from the participant list
- visiting Mr Davo Devil’s blog to leave and answer questions
Congratulations to:
- gamekid27 who has earned over 8000 grains so far
- bbsam and bbjoseph who have earned over 4000 grains each so far
- Jake G, teeganr4 and Gpower12 who have earned over 3000 grains each so far
Finally, leave a comment on this post about who you nominated or ideas for the next challenge in 2012.
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I am a middle school teacher who retired in 2012 but still loves teaching. In my spare time I enjoy tracing my family history and helping others with their genealogy as well as chatting with my friends around the world. But most of all, I enjoy travelling and visiting new places.
Hi,
I think that we should do more posts about global issues, like my poverty post (http://gemmaccs11.edublogs.org/2011/10/19/poverty/) and more favourites.
Gemma
Hi Miss W!
Before I began answering questions, I would like to say that I have learned so much during the challenge and I have enjoyed every minute of it! Now time to answer the questions.
Is two weeks early enough for registration to begin before the first challenge?
No, I think this time period is just right! I don’t think that there is any reason for someone to forget to sign up for the challenge when having 2 weeks!
Did you subscribe by RSS or email in order to get the posts as soon as they were published?
Yes, I did this because I wanted to know when the next challenge comes up so I can do it!
How useful are these pages in the header of the blogging challenge?
Very useful because I don’t have to go look through the posts when I need to find things like student participants etc!
The challenges:
Did you visit the actual challenge on the blog each week or did your teacher have a post on your class blog?
I visited the actual challenge each week.
Which challenges were the most useful?
I think that the most useful challenges were the global issues one, improving your posts one and the one about me on the internet.
Which challenges were the most interesting?
I think that the global issues challenge was very interesting and the one about me on the internet.
What would be some other topics you would like included in future challenges
Maybe sport or music?
Are more tutorial type challenges needed? eg how to make a link in your post
Yes, those particular challenges helped me know how to put attribution to a person in a picture.
Were the ‘Visit these’ posts useful?
Yes, I liked seeing my name on some of them!
Were the challenges where you had to embed ie polls, cartoons, wallwisher etc interesting or could you not embed due to being a free Edublogs blog or a blogging platform that didn’t allow embedding?
I think that they were very interesting and didn’t have any problems at all!
Were there enough chances to visit blogs from overseas and make links with other students/classes?
Yes, because you included the ‘visit these’ blogs and you had a blog roll and a paricipents list.
Did you make global connections?
Yes, I now know a girl called Mohana from over seas
Anything else you would like to mention about the challenge in particular
I enjoyed it very much and learned heaps!
How many posts did you write?
During the challenge I wrote 22 posts
How many were school based, your own interests or set by the challenge?
The other posts not including the challenge that I wrote is 54
How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers or overseas students?
I received 103 comments
Which post received the most comments? Why do you think that happened?
Well I got 3 comments on the posts 10 blog comments and 5 tourist attractions. I think I got comments on those posts because they were interesting maybe and because they worth long
Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?
I enjoyed writing the posts about my favourites because I talked about sport and I love sport and also because you could do whatever you want and be creative!
Did you change blog themes at all and why?
I did change blog themes for the Halloween season because it was one of the requirements if you wanted to do it on the challenge!
How many widgets do you have? Do you think this is too many or not enough?
I have 28 widgets and I think that is a pretty good number.
How many overseas students do you have on your blogroll?
I have 5 overseas student blogs on my blogroll
Thanks for the challenge!
Angie
Dear Miss W.
Are students allowed to nominate a class’ blog?
Sincerely,
Jaden
(Mrs. Yollis’ former student)
Jaden,
Yes students may nominate a class blog in the awards. Write a post saying why then fill in the nomination form as well.
Hello Miss W. After the challenge am I still allowed to do some of the challenges from other weeks?
Hi Bubblegum,
Yes you can continue doing the challenges for as long as you wish. You can even go back to previous sets of challenges and try those as well.
How many posts did you write?
111 posts
How many were school based, your own interests or set by the challenge?
About 10
How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers or overseas students?
Less than 83
Which post received the most comments? Why do you think that happened?
Hobbies got 5 comments because people sometimes comment on the first post on a blog.
Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?
All of them because it was so fun writing posts.
Did you change blog themes at all and why?
Yes because I wanted to find the right theme.
How many widgets do you have? Do you think this is too many or not enough?
19 but I think that enough.
How many overseas students do you have on your blogroll?
5
Hello Miss.W
I am going to nominate http://alexandra110gs.edublogs.org/
for the BEST blog!
Lily
Lily,
Make sure you have written a post saying why you are nominating that blog and remember to go to the other website to fill in the nomination form.
Hi Miss W i only want to ask if we need to answer all of the questions?
Valentina,
Answer as many as you can. It helps me when planning the next challenge in March 2012.
Hey Miss W, can you nominate people that are not participating in the challenge for best student blog or individual blog… ect?
~Simone~
Simone,
You can nominate any blog at all in the world but I would suggest there needs to be some recent posts on the blog.
Thank you Miss W!
Hi Miss W,
I really enjoyed participating in the student blogging challenge for 2011. I have learnt to blog heaps better and to write better and more interesting posts, set to attract more visitors worldwide.
I tried to visit the blog every week, to check what posts to write .
I really enjoyed participating this year!
Thanks,
Sophie
Hi Miss W!
i loved the sand one (making ur own sand) 
I would like to say that I have learned so much during the challenges and I have enjoyed every minute of it i loved doing blaberizze it was so fun
from tarley!
hi ms.w in this chalenge we need to put post in our blog or where we put this activities???
thanks, manuela
http://www.manuelasblog.weebly.com
Manuela,
You need to put the post in your blog or wherever you are putting the challenge activities.
Mrs. W I finished all my blog challenges!
tanks ms.w i finish this challenges and i enjoy and learn a lot thanks for all
http://www.6amanuelasblog.weebly.com
Hi
I have an idea for next years blogging challenge. personalization! It’d include your avatar changing your theme adding backgrounds and putting on widgets. By the way if anyone likes being random check out 77squeaky66.edublogs.org
Hi Miss W,
I wanted to thank you because of all learning I have gained on blogs thanks to the blog challenge competition, I really hope other students realy use it as I did, I wrote a post about it and I have finish all the challenges!
Check my blog: 6adanielasblog.weebly.com
Miss W, I already did the challenge, please check it out, and tell me if it is fine!
Thanks!
6bdanielasblog.weebly.com
Hi Miss W,
I have written two posts about my nominations and completed activity 1. Thanks…
Here is a link:
http://dawsosblog.edublogs.org/2011/11/29/evaluating-the-student-blogging-challenge/
Thanks…
Dawso
I am doing activity #3.
I want to nominate gemma.
http://gemmaccs11.edublogs.org/2011/10/19/poverty/
please leave a comment http://dino200220535.edublogs.org/
Do you count as a teacher? I counted you as one.
Just was wondering.
G’day Doop,
Yes I count as a teacher. Thanks for asking.
For activity #2 do we have to do all the questions?
G’day MA,
No, just try and answer as many as you can. You don’t need to write out the question and answer, just answer them in a paragraph on your blog.
i have done all the challenges from 1-9 i am working on #10 still
http://0535cg.edublogs.org/
I DID BLOG CHALLENGE 10 HERE IT IS http://0535cg.edublogs.org/ OR ON THIS POST How many posts did you write? i have done 25 posts
How many were school based, your own interests or set by the challenge? 2 post were shool base
11 post were an my intrest
9 now 10 posts were set by the challenge
4 were random posts
How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers or overseas students? 3 comments
Which post received the most comments? Why do you think that happened? NONE I DON’T KNOW
Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why? I ENJOYED WRITING MY INTEREST POSTS BECAUSE COULD WRITE WHAT EVER I WANTED
Did you change blog themes at all and why? Yes i changed my theme allot because at some time it got boring
How many widgets do you have? Do you think this is too many or not enough? 10 widgets i think this is OK
How many overseas students do you have on your blogroll? NONE
G’day CG,
I think the reason your class didn’t get many comments was the URL of your blog got changed part way through the challenge.
i agree
DECEMBER IS A TIME FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
A GOOD TIME FOR THIS IS ON
24 AND25 OF DECEMBER
http://samblc0535cg.edublogs.org/
Hi Mrs. W,
Here are the people I nominated…
Best Individual Blog
My favourite indivindual blog is…
Amberbrs13′s Blog
Best New Blog
My favourite new blog is…
Summer’s Blog
Best Student Blog
My favourite student blog is…
Emma’s Excellent Blog
Bub Bye
~Amber~
Sorry,
Here are the links…
Amberbrs13′s Blog http://kidblog.org/brs-rm13-2011/author/Amberbrs13/page/3/
Summer’s Blog
http://summerpro11.edublogs.org/
Emma’s Excellent Blog
http://emmamb4.edublogs.org/
Bub Bye
~Amber~
Hi Miss.W
This is the link to my post about my nominations.
http://lauren2110gs.edublogs.org/2011/11/30/nominations/
Thanks,
Lauren
Hello Mrs. Wyatt.
Here is the link to my post with all of my nominations on it.
http://jared110gs.edublogs.org/2011/11/30/2011-blog-challenge-nominations/
Thanks.
Jared.
1.No my teacher has a link to it on her website.
2.The ones that make my blog better.
3.The ones that I get to play a game and write a post about it.
4.Favorite foods.
5.Yes
6.Yes
7.Yes they were very interesting.
8.Yes because you had a blogroll that I could use.
9.Some like the Global Issuese.
10.No
11.No
Miss W.,
Come see my blog that I did just for fun : http://2215jh.edublogs.org/?p=85
From,
Jenna
P.S. I’m working on blog challenge 10 now!
P.P.S. I never understood how to have that oversea flag widget thing. And also, only two people have commented on my website(You and my mom).
Here is my blogging challenge umber ten. Make sure to read the last part of my post! : http://2215jh.edublogs.org/?p=88
Hi Miss W,
I just wanted to ask when are we going to know who is the winner for each category… when and were are you going to write a post about it?
Can you please let me know with a comment in my blog.
http://6bdanielasblog.weebly.com/
Thank you
Daniela