Challenge 8 and 9 – Sept 2010
What an exciting last two weeks in the challenge! You have had a chance to win big by taking part in the Edublogger’s competition. I have visited there often and noticed there are over 150 comments and links. If you win, congratulations on having a 12 month Pro blog subscription. How will this change your blog?
You also had a chance to nominate blogs for the Edublog Awards. I read on their blog that they had thousands of nominations and had to shortlist all the categories. Again, congratulations to those students, teachers and classes who were nominated for a category. Make sure you visit the Edublog Awards page and vote for your favourite blogs. Be sure to check out the other blogs as well, because they can give you ideas on how to improve your own blog.
While checking out the Edublogger competition, I noticed Sue Waters had created a post relating to one of the topics in the competition. It was about what you would include if you were in charge of the student blogging challenge.
The challenges for week 9 are:
1. Use one or more of the tools mentioned in this post on the Edublogger. Embed your result in a post explaining why you chose that particular tool. Be careful though, some of the tools require you to be 13+ to use it. Make sure you check out the terms and conditions first before adding it to your blog, unless your teacher joins with a class account.
2. Vote for your favourite blogs in the Edublog Awards (see link above).
3. Visit these class blogs to leave at least three comments altogether – Mrs Ratzel, Mrs Buist, Mrs Yollis, Mr Miller, The Ripple Effect, Miss Nichols, Climb High, Freeville Room 5, Mrs Ross’s class, Through our window ( a competition for December), CO-Connections, Huzzah, 4/5/6/Learning Centre and 5th grade bobcats.
4. Have you been having some regular visitors to your blog? Maybe it was a teacher who left some comments or some students. Write a post thanking them and explaining why you appreciated them visiting your blog. Find your name on the September Students list and you should find the name of the teacher who was supposed to visit you at least 2 or 3 times over the last few weeks.
5. Start thinking about your post for next week. It will be about reflecting on your blogging journey so far – wait till next week though before writing it as I will leave a few suggestions of what to do for this last challenge.
Original image: ‘Camp Taji obstacle course ‘
