Week 10: So long, farewell
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This is our last post for the Student Blogging Challenge until we start again next year in March 2016. I hope you have enjoyed the activities and the chance to make connections with other students and classes around the world.
I would like to thank Sue Waters from Edublogs for writing a few of the challenges this time, but also thank the mentors for taking time to visit and comment on student blogs.
We have had a great 10 weeks of blogging. You have learnt so many skills to help you improve your blogs. Many of you have improved those writing skills or maybe digital skills with using a variety of tools to embed on your blog. But it is now time to evaluate your progress as well as the progress of the blogging challenge itself.
This week there are three things to do:
- Evaluate your own blog
- Evaluate the actual blogging challenge
- Keep watching for the post from Edublogs about voting for the best student and class blogs
1. This is an audit of your blog since the beginning of October 2015.
- 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?
- Which web tools did you use to show creativity on your blog?
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?
Write a post about your blog audit.
2. Evaluating the challenge.
This is the fifteenth challenge and sometimes I feel like the activities are getting stale especially for those students who have taken part in more than one set of challenges. So over the next few weeks I will be adding new pages that you all can contribute to. Every month of the year, there are special events, festivals, birthdays of authors etc. Which ones do you think it would be interesting to write about? Find the post ideas page for that month and add your ideas in the comments. (These are found above the header area)
I usually have a form to fill in here but this time I would like you to leave a quality comment giving your opinion of the challenge. You might want to mention some of the following things:
- the most interesting challenge for you
- how often you visited other blogs and left comments
- whether you read the challenge flipboard magazine
- a PMI or plus/minus/interesting point about the challenge
- the most important thing you learnt while doing the challenge
3. Voting for blogs – I will include a link here when I know more about the voting for the best class and student blogs. I know there were nearly 400 nominations for student blogs and about two hundred for class blog. The team at Edublogs have had to short list these down to about 40 in each category, so if you were nominated congratulations. If you made it to the shortlist for students then your blog will have been nominated many times or will have at least 10 posts or will show great conversations in the comments.
If you missed out on the shortlist for this year, keep your blog going next year, keep making connections with students around the world and perhaps you will make the shortlist for 2016.
78 comments on “Week 10: So long, farewell”
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Hi Ms. W,
I think the Student Blogging Challenges are very engaging, and is different every time! Though one thing i’d suggest is to make the challenges more a driven at creativity.
Thanks,
Hunter
http://hmshunter.edublogs.org/
dear Ms. W,
The SBC challenges for the past 10 week were really fun. The most interesting challenge for me was the one that we got to vote for the different blogs. I love this because you get to vote for different blog that are interesting. I look at other peoples blog probably four times a week. I read the challenge flipboard magazine every sunday to see the different post every week. It was a plus to learn about different people in different countries. A minus is that I had to think of things to write for all of my post (but it made me use my creative mind more). It was interesting because to see what my classmates had to say and what I had to say. The most important thing I learned is to be more creative in my mind. Thank you Ms. W. for creating these awesome challenges.
Sincerely,
Alexandrianna
Dear Ms. W,
The most important challenge was the first one because you would need to know what to do and how these blogs work.
Sincerely,
Landein
Dear Ms. W,
I enjoyed the challenge much. Especially the survey. Now time to kick in for Winter Break. Happy Holidays!
Hi Ms.W,
I really enjoyed all of the topics on this student blogging challenge. I hope I will participate in it next year.
Thank you,
Isabella
Dear Mrs. W
I’m going to be honest. I didn’t like the challenge. The topics weren’t that fun, I for one hardly got to write anything interesting. The topics were bland and they weren’t as much fun as I thought. The idea is good, you just need better topics, maybe let kids write about things they actually like once in a while? Because after a while this just got tedious, repetitive, and boring. I don’t mean to be rude, just giving constructed criticism.
Dear Ms. W,
The most fun one was the scary story. I don’t really go exploring or commenting though, although I look at the scary stories. I have never read the flip board magazine. I learnt how to blog because before, I didn’t know how so this has been a great experience.
from,
Dashiell
Dear Ms. W,
The challenges were great. Some of the challenges were hard and some were easy. The SBC challenges were a mix of hard, easy, fun, and interesting challenges.
Sincerely,
Kyler
Dear Ms. W,
I liked the challenges. They were interesting and enjoyable, though sometimes they took awhile for me to think about what to write. I’m really happy that I got to do this.
From,
Caitlyn
Dear Ms. W,
All of the challenges were interesting, but the most interesting to me was Week 7. They weren’t stale, but very difficult at times.
Sincerely,
Justin M.
Hello Miss W,
I thought these posts/challenges were fun even though I didn’t do all of them but I enjoyed the ones that I did. I enjoyed most about writing about Nature and all the facts about it.
Sincerely,
Tyler
Dear Ms.W,
The most interesting challenge for me was the one about nature because I
got to use my knoledge on Hawaii.
I go on other peoples blog to read there posts abd leave comments.
I read the challenge flipboard magazine to see if my blog is on it.
The interesting part of the blogging was when we had to visit other peoples blog.
The most important thing that I learned was paitence because we have a lot of homework and this on top of it.
Aloha,
hmsjena
Dear Ms. W,
Some of the challenges were interesting and fun. Some of them where quite hard and time consuming. I’m glad we get a short break.
Sincerely,
Katelyn
Dear Ms. W,
Sorry, I accidentally submitted the comment before I finished. I liked the activity where we had to create an avatar. I visited kind of a lot of blogs when we had to for an activity. I did not read the challenge flipboard magazine. I learned that we need to communicate with people who live outside of Hawaii.
Dear Mrs.W
All of the Challenges were very challenging.I don’t really visit the blogs that much. My favorite blog would be the Halloween Stories, because i love reading other peoples story. I think that the student blogging challenge was very fun and good for us.
sincerely,
Fern
Dear Ms. W,
The most interesting challenge for me was the 5:1 activity.
I visited other;’s blogs very frequently.
I also read flip board magazine numerous times.
SBC was fun, challenging, and interesting at the same time.
The most important thing I learned while doing the challenge was how to write for other audiences.
Sincerely,
Carlie
Dear Ms. W,
I think the most interesting challenge on Student Blogging Challenge is probably the Halloween one because you got to make a halloween story, and even talk about what you do for halloween.
From Joe
Dear Ms. W,
The SBC was fun but challenging sometimes. I think that it was a good experience and is good to do again.
Sincerly,
Carlie
Dear Ms. W,
Thanks for the awesome time during this fall. I liked the challenge where we got to talk about our food since I really like food.
Sincerely,
Yuma 😀
Hello Ms. W
One thing I learned from the challenges was how to not procrastinate as much. I used to procrastinate a lot, but this has taught me time management.
Marshall
http://hmsmarshall.edublogs.org/
Hi Mrs. W,
This was a great Student Blogging Challenge. I probably won’t be doing this next year, but I have a quote from a song to express many of the students’ feelings.
“It’s been a long way, from where we began; and I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again. ~Wiz Khalifa
Thank you for letting us have so much fun this year!
~Yoshi
Hi Miss W,
My favorite part of the challenge was when we were just starting because it was fun to get people to know me more. It was also fun to read the flipboard magazine and see some of the great posts that ended up in it. I was so surprised when I found a few of mine in there. The most important thing that I learned during this challenge was to manage your time wisely. Where I’m from, we have to do all the activities every week, and if we don’t plan when we’re going to do each activity carefully, we end up being late. The challenge was great overall, and I hope that I do it again.
Angela
http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/
Dear Ms. W,
I really liked the student blogging challenge because it is a great way to socialize with other people around the world and it is also a great way to learn to write better. My favorite challenge was when we did the Count 1,2,3 game because I really liked commenting on other students blogs. I don’t visit blogs and/or comment on them too much unless it is part of the challenge. The most interesting part about the challenge is how fun it was to write posts about yourself. It is a great way to learn more about people and how they live their lives. I sometimes read the flip board magazine when I have time to see if any of my friends post is on the magazine. I hope there are more challenges to be made because it was very fun to do.
Sincerely,
Alexandra Lee
Dear Ms. W,
The Blogging Challenges were very enjoyable to do and very compelling, especially if we are visiting other blogs from different places! One of my favorite challenges was to write about the types of food we eat in our country! I learned and experienced a lot when doing the challenges. I also made new friends with other people not just from the USA, but from other countries. I hope the SBC will start again soon!
Dear Ms. W,
The blogging challenges were fun and interesting. I like a lot of these topics.
Sincerely,
Jason