Welcome to the first week of activities in the 8th student blogging challenge. As at writing this first post, we have 112 classes, 748 students and 36 mentors taking part in the challenge. We cover the following 22 countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA – majority of students and classes from these countries. United Kingdom,…Continue…Continue Reading Week 1: All about me
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Challenge 8: Are you connecting?
How are you going getting comments from people other than your classmates? Have you received comments from overseas visitors? Has anyone in your family left a comment? Remember you might need to teach them how to leave a comment. Activity 1: Write a post about your family – include their interests, where you might have…Continue…Continue Reading Challenge 8: Are you connecting?
Challenge 2: My Place
Last week we learnt all about you – your interests, your favourite foods, music and lots of other things when you wrote your ‘About’ page. This week we are going to learn all about the area in which you live. As many of you know, I will be visiting the USA and Canada (in fact…Continue…Continue Reading Challenge 2: My Place
Challenge 1: All about you
Welcome to the seventh student blogging challenge. Looking through the list of participants, we have very few students who have taken part in a challenge before so the activities will be new to you all. A reminder that some activities will be about setting up your blog while other activities will be writing posts or…Continue…Continue Reading Challenge 1: All about you
Heads and feet Challenge 2-March 2011
Much of this post has been cross posted from my class blog, ‘Kids in the Mid‘. What an unusual title? I wonder what we are going to be doing this week in the challenges? Answer: Heads (avatars), feet (digital footprint) Once you are starting to create online, you often need to have a special identity….Continue…Continue Reading Heads and feet Challenge 2-March 2011