Miss Wyatt began blogging in January 2008. She began with her own personal blog and developed a class blog in March. By the end of April, most of her students had their own blogs and the class blog was getting less use.
In September that same year, Sue Waters (editor of “The Edublogger”) and Miss W. ran a very successful international student blogging competition. They had classes from 9 countries taking part involving about 500 students.
It was so successful, that they ran another beginning March 2009. This was a challenge though, not a competition. This time 15 countries were involved and a total of over 1000 students ranging from grade 2 classes through to students in senior school.
The majority of individual students with their own blog were aged 12-14 while many primary or elementary classes participated using a class blog.
All the information for the blog was found on Miss W.’s class blog pages. There was one page giving links to all the challenges, another page giving links to all the participants and the final page gave a link via a google reader, to all the posts written by the participants.
Challenges were set out once a week on Miss W.’s class blog with the category ‘challenge09′ to make it easy for searching.
Because many students had already taken part in the blogging challenge, it was decided in September 2009 to extend to two challenges – one for better bloggers and another for better commenters. Over 600 individual students and 80 classes totalling a possible 3000 students registered this time. Again we had participation from 15 countries of the world, some bloggers were only just starting, others had their blogs for over a year.
It is now 2010 and the student blogging challenge has its own blog.
I wonder how these challenges will go?
I and my class are first time challenge participants. We are very excited and looking forward to the challenge! Somewhere I read a question about what we would like to see in the challenge. Just an idea, what if everyone shared a day in the life of… We could use photos or video along with writing! It could be fun to see a day in the life of students from around the world.
The blog I went on was the Ripple Effect. The comment I left was: Hey, that was a very interesting. I never heard of it before. Just to say you could of put more detail like if its endanger or where it lives. But it was still good. What did you make it out of clay or did you draw it heres are website http://partlowpowerhouse.edublogs.org THat is wat I wrote and I chose it randomly because i didnt know which one to choose. That is all.
Our school term holidays end on the 10.10.10 and we start Term 4 on the 11.10.10 which will be the 10th on the other side of the world. Our idea is still brewing but will most likely be a day in the life of a kid….as seen through their eyes.
Looking forward to seeing all the other entries.
Andrea
I need help. I think my blog URL is broken! Can you help me?
This might be a little fun.
I mean, blogging of course.
Do you read the Warrior Cats series by any chance?
Yes…
Oh that’s so cool I love Dovepaw she is awesome
When does the challenge start?
Hi my name is alex it’s very fun looking at other peoples blogs They are all very cool.
P.S here is a link to my blog http://kidblog.org/MrsSchmidtsClass5/author/alex933/
Thank you so much for the great idea! I’m hoping to start a project similar to this for my own class:) Here is a link to my blog that I just started creating for a class I am taking! Thanks again.
http://lmcollaborativelearning.wordpress.com/
Hello! Is the challenge still open? If so, when is the deadline? Thank you
hey guys ! visit my blog : http://maryem.edublogs.org/ I hope you will like it