Challenge about the number 10
If you could meet 10 people, alive or dead, who would they be? Make a list of the people and include one question you would ask them in an interview. You cannot repeat the same question.
Challenge to improve your blog
You are going to have a lot of new visitors coming to your blog throughout this challenge. We have students from many different countries participating, some for the first time. They are going to want to know a bit about you. As this is information that doesn’t change very often, it is included in an About Me page you create. Remember if your pages don’t appear at the top in your header, then you will need to open your dashboard and under appearance>widgets, drag the pages widget across to your sidebar.
- In Edublogs, you have a Sample page that you can edit, change the title to About Me and introduce yourself to your readers.
- In Blogger you also have a profile page you can change that will then appear in the sidebar of your blog.
- In Kidblog, you will need to write a post rather than a page.
- In Weebly, you can create a page.
Remember to be internet safe and not include personal information. Examples to check out
Students: Jacob, Morgan, Em (our youngest participant), Jake (a student mentor also check out this post he has written), Samantha, Isaiah, Ethan, Josie, Teegan (one of our student mentors), Angie (made a prezi), Raiyaan, Simon (an older student from Ireland), Elizabeth wrote a poem, Emily
Classes: Room 7 NZ, Mrs Kelly – long but beautiful, Mrs K includes an animoto, Mrs Lucchesi used a prezi, Mrs Hazzledine wrote a poem as a class, Mrs Bliss, Mrs Caudill, Mr Mac, Mr Toft,
If using Edublogs or a campus version of Edublogs, make sure you have filled in your blog profile page correctly. You should have only your first name(2), a nickname and display name(3) and a link to your own blog(5) in the URL area. This will make it easier for others to visit your blog if they are using the same blogging platform as you are. When leaving comments on other blogging platforms you might need to include your first name, a link to your blog and an email address as well as the anti-spam word. If leaving comments on kidblog, include your URL in the actual comment area as it does not normally ask for this otherwise.
Other challenges for week 1
1. Create an avatar that represents you – check out this post for websites to try. Most blogging platforms allow you to upload your avatar, so use the Get Help section on the sidebar for your type of blog.
2. So you know where your visitors are coming from have some sort of map or flag counter. Check out this post for ideas of where to get them.
3. Not all students have English as their first language, so you will need a translator widget of some sort on your blog. Find them here.
4. Part of good digital citizenship is not being a cyber bully. Have you ever been cyber-bullied? What did you do about it? Make a list of hints for students who are being cyber-bullied. Maybe make a poster about what to do and what not to do. Perhaps you could use glogster or as a class use wallwisher. Check out the list of web 2.0 tools you could use on the sidebar.
5. Are you going to have any guidelines or rules for leaving comments on your blog? Check out these from other students – now create your own and add to a new page on your blog. Teegan (bit hard to read though) Abbey (older student)
6. Write a post about why students and classes should visit your blog. Why is your blog going to be interesting? What will you be posting about? What could they learn from reading your blog? Make sure you hyperlink back to this challenge post somewhere in your post. That way, I will get a trackback or pingback and I will be able to visit your blog to read your post, otherwise I won’t know if you have written anything about this challenge.
eg. This post is for Challenge 1 in the March 2013 challenge. Highlight ‘Challenge 1′ then use the Link icon – chains joined – and copy and paste in the URL below
http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2013/03/03/challenge-1-who-am-i/
This is one of the most important skills to know when blogging – how to make a link – if unsure check out this post for Edublogs or this post for blogspot.
7. If you have been blogging for a while, write a post highlighting some posts you have written that you would recommend new bloggers read. Remember to give an explanation why – what will they learn from reading that post? Make sure you link to the posts you are recommending so your readers can actually visit them.
Extras for classes
Create an animoto with images of your classroom or school taken by your students. This might be included as a post or on your about page. Make sure you join the free education version where both you and your students can create longer length animotos. Ms T used an animoto
Visit your buddy classes (those on either side of your class on the ‘Classes – March 2013′ page.) Introduce yourself and get a conversation started.
Have pairs of students in your class visit a different class blog and check it out. What did they like about it? What caught their eye? Did they find an interesting post?
Now on your class blog, write a post about visiting other class blogs. Highlight those things your students found interesting and add links back to the blogs they visited.
Let’s visit
Leave a comment on the blog of up to 10 students who have the same mentor as you. Make sure it is a quality comment – if the student has blogging or commenting guidelines, read them first. If your mentor has left a comment on your blog, perhaps visit their blog to ask some questions politely. Hopefully the mentor will have their name or avatar image linked to their blog URL.
Teachers might like to visit this post with great ideas on About pages and guidelines for blogging. Here is a list of great widgets to have on your sidebar of your blog.
Admin messages
Always remember to check your spam comments as sometimes a real comment gets stuck in there.
If using the Edublogs free version, many widgets with embed code wont be able to be added to your blog. But if your teacher is using a pro version, they can check out this post to add your blog to their blog then you will be able to include embed code on your blogs. If using a campus version of Edublogs, there is no need to do this as blogs can already use embed code .
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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.
Dear Miss W,
My students at Hey, Kids! (http://bdonofrio.edublogs.org) will start the March Student Blogging Challenge tomorrow. Thank you so much for mentoring this project. We are relatively new to blogging. We began our class blog in August and our student blogs in January. We all love blogging, and I am learning a lot about technology through our blog. Jumping in the pool leaves room only for sinking or swimming; sometimes I am doing the dog paddle, but we are keeping our heads above water so far. I really appreciate you giving your time to help my students grow in their writing and technology skills. I think it’s just so neat that the village we need to help raise our kids has gone global and cyber.
Thank you so much, and we look forward to the challenge!
Mrs. Donofrio at Hey, Kids!
For the ‘Number 10′ challenge, I’m a little confused… Is is a story, or a list, etc.?
I’m sorry…never mind. I got my answer.
The people, along with questions would be:
1. Skrillex- When you were very poor, how did you buy your dubstep equipment?
2. Eminem- How was your life as a kid?
3. Jesus- Were you ever frustrated with atheists?
4. Stephen Hawking- Have you ever been teased because of your disability?
5. DeadMau5- did you name yourself after your cat killing mice?
6. Larry Page- did you ever think Google would become as popular as it is?
7. Pope Benidict- Why did you quit?
8. William Shakespere- did you ever think you would be famous?
9. Babe Ruth- If you were alive today, would you want to play baseball today?
10.Denzel Washington- What motivated you to play Whip Whittaker in Flight?
At first : 1-one direction: does any member of the group want to begin a solo career?
2-little mix : why you don’t help african people like what one direction did in Ghana ?
3- Taylor Swift : what’s you favourite song from one direction songs?
4-Katy Perry:did you go on a diet with someone?
5-Adam Lambert: how was your childhood ?
6-Lady GaGa: what’s you favourite food ?
7-Britney Spears: do you want to act in a film ?
8-F.U.N : how did you become a group ?
9-Rihanna : is it difficult to be a singer ? and finally
10- Michael Jackson : are you proud of your international success? written by Maryem from Tunisia
http://kidblog.org/1K2012-2/dcd35c49-f636-46a1-a192-3794e3e34b57/who-am-i/
Who am I blogging challenge
Hey I like your blog I’m a big fan.
Hey-Check out my website for Challenge #1 of the Student Blogging Challenge.
http://cristinaolveraprotfolio.blogspot.com/
This is my who am I challenge:http://kidblog.org/1K2012-2/bda8c072-c9d7-4911-884d-d61ecbc7adb6/all-about-me-3/
Dear Miss W,
Here is a linoit board with Challenge #1 posts by 7-9 y.o. students who are using Kidblog.
http://goo.gl/FNGAM
Sincerely,
Helen O.
Hi! Visit my challenge answer at http://www.sadiecsblog.edublogs.org !
http://kidblog.org/1K2012-2/37d56a89-041b-496e-9d31-f2bbf0dbb66e/who-am-i-5/
Who am I blogging challenge
http://kidblog.org/1K2012-2/a5d7cd0c-b886-4c13-9f3a-99134a040a28/who-am-i-2/
Who am i blogging challenge
If I could meet 10 people, one would be Michael Landon. I loved his acting and I would surely ask him where he learnt to act like that. I would have loved to meet Shakespeare and ask him who was his inspiration.I know for sure I would have wanted to meet my grandfather and would have asked him to play some good old cricket with me but sadly he isn’t alive and I can’t. I know for sure i want to meet Melissa Gilbert and would ask her who her role model was. I surely want to meet Demi Lavato and ask her if she could give me her autograph. Of course I want to meet Joyce Meyer and ask her how she could do so much for the world by giving and preaching the word of God even when things are going are hard. No doubt about it; I would love to meet Justin Bieber and ask him why he doesn’t write songs about the Lord instead. I would have enjoyed a long conversation with Walt Disney and ask him how he got so many ideas for Disney World. Now if I could meet Susan Boyle I would ask if she ever thought she would have fans. I would enjoy meeting Nelson Mandela and ask him how he was so brave as to stand up for human rights and against slavery. And to end things, I would have loved to meet my great great grandparents and ask them how things were in there time. That’s all for now.
Board for Challenge #1 – more posts added!
http://goo.gl/9eXLG
Hi All,
We’ve just started on our blog challenge journey. Here is our first post on our challenge. We went a bit overboard on the questions! But it was a lot of fun!
http://angie8881.edublogs.org/tag/blog-challenge/
Mrs Taylor
Micheal Jackson
Frank Sinatra
Dzeck Muller
Lionel Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo
Eminem
Macklemore
PSY
Darth VADER
SKRILLEX
SKRILLEX
How is life as a musician?
G’day Eric,
The idea for this activity was to ask each person a different question rather than the same question. Which of those musicians do you look up to the most and why?
Buddah :Is there only 1 buddah or more ?
Laura Vitale : Can you tell me all of your tip in cooking ?
Ellen show : Can you make me laugh for the whole day ?
G’day Susan,
I love your question for Ellen. I assume this is Ellen Degeneres?