This penultimate challenge (second last) is an audit of your blog since the beginning of March 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?
Some other thoughts for blog posts this week
Activity 1.
Will you continue blogging over your summer holidays (Northern hemisphere) or during the winter term (Southern Hemisphere)? Why or why not?
Activity 2.
If you didn’t get many visitors to your blog (other than your classmates), what do you think you need to do to get them to visit? Write a post about this.
Activity 3.
Do you think it would be handy to have a blogging glossary on your blog? If yes, create one as a page so it is always available to your readers.
Activity 4.
If you could nominate only one student blog and one class blog for an Edublogs award later in the year, whose blog would you nominate and why? Make sure you put a link to their blog on your post, then come to this challenge post and leave a comment saying who you would nominate. You cannot nominate your own blog.
These are some examples of nomination posts from last year: Becky, Dominique, Olivia,
Activity 5.
Check out the Google calendar on the Kids in the Mid blog and write a post about one of the celebrations for this week.
Next week, I will be asking you about the challenge itself . So please think about the good and bad things, the interesting and boring etc. Your opinion will help organize the next set of challenges in September when I will be travelling USA and Canada. Hopefully I will be visiting some of your schools.
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Climb High
http://climbhigh.edublogs.org/
Taylor Witthun
http://taylortech71011.edublogs.org/
I also nominate John Miller’s class blog. the link is: http://mrmillersblog.com/
I will nominate Chloe. I nominate Chloe because she has been working hard. She also sits right next to me. the link is: http://chloetech71011.edublogs.org/
I nominated Alex!
I will nominate Alex!! I nominated him because he is all caught up! Also he works very good in our class. Also he sits right next to me!
http://alextech71011.edublogs.org/
I chose Chloe for the student nomination and Emma Watts for the class nomination.
Chloe: http://chloetech71011.edublogs.org/
Emma Watts: http://room9-in-2011.blogspot.com/
I nominate http://cortneytech71011.edublogs.org/ !
Climb High
http://climbhigh.edublogs.org/
I nominate Cassy! Visit her blog at http://cassylynnpro.edublogs.org. Go on check it out!
I nominate Jayden! – visit http://jaydenpro.edublogs.org to check out his blog:)
I nominate
Best student’s blog: http://utauhoshina.edublogs.org/
Best class’s blog: http://icubed.edublogs.org/
Hello,
I nominate Maya’s blog, who’s website is http://mayasmusings.weebly.com/index.html, for the best student blog. I nominate the Bayonne High School Band’s blog, who’s website is http://bayonneband.com/, for the best class blog.
Class Blog: I dominate icubed for the best class blog of the year blogging challenge
Reason: I like this blog, because it is very colorful, attractive, and really get attention to the visitors.
Student Blog: I dominate vanessascs16 for the best student blog of the the year blogging challange
Reason: I like this blog, because the title of the blog really get attention, and the content is very interesting.
HI
I think that http://crystalpro.edublogs.org/ and http://vanessascs16.edublogs.org/ should win the Edublogs award !!!!!!
I nominated Maya’s Blog (http://mayasmusings.weebly.com/index.html) for the best student blog and Huzzah! (http://huzzah.edublogs.org/) for best class blog. Too bad I can’t nominate myself.
Duy
I nominate Valen Blog
http://valensblog.weebly.com/index.html
And Miss. Anne De Manser class http://mortlakemiddleyears.edublogs.org/
I nominate Duy’s blog because
if I can’t vote my own, (not that I would even if I could) I figured it will be best if I vote someone in our school, and I’m too lazy to go around visiting blogsHi Miss W,
I nominate Duy’s blog http://dlam2015.edublogs.org/.
Nicholas
Hello Miss. W!
I am Billy and about the activity we need to do. I vote for Isabella and here is the link: http://isabellaj18.edublogs.org/
Thank you for listening.
Billy
I nominate Anna from http://studentbloggers.us/blogs/as04cougar/ for the best student blog and I nominate Mr. Avery from http://mravery.edublogs.org/ for the best class blog.
I nominate d4station.edublogs.org (Marshall, the Insane Squirrel).
I think mayasmusings.weebly.com is the best blog.
I have a question. Why is it the year that i leave Elementary school, you decide to go to The U.S.A? It seems kind of ironic!
~Shea
I am only going for a ten week holiday and I will still be running the blogging challenge while I am away. Hopefully I will be visiting some of the schools which take part in the challenges.
WHERE’S THE CALENDAR! HELP!
I nominate http://bnguyen2017.edublogs.org/
Please somebody visit my blog!
Hello, Miss W!
I am Billy from grade 6 and I really love this post that you write. Thank you for giving us a post to do.
See you, Billy.
Wow usually the blogs are more fun I am surprised!