Because we had two posts last week and I know many students from the northern hemisphere are on Spring Break around this time, I have decided that this week will be free choice.
You might want to:
- catch up on the posts from the last couple of weeks – about me, avatar, commenting, guidelines, visiting and commenting, earth hour
- comment on other student or class blogs
- write your own post about something of your choice – use #16stubc somewhere in the post so I know it relates to the challenge
Students
We are coming up to nearly a month of the challenge and as I mentioned in one of the earlier posts, some students will be taken off the student list over Easter (next weekend) if they have not completed certain activities.
Why do I do this?
We have over 2500 students registered for the challenge but less than half of them get to have a mentor. So if students are not doing the challenge activities I feel they don’t deserve to have a mentor.
Which students will be taken off?
Students who already have mentors need to have completed the following to be left on the list:
- An about me page or post
- One other post related to the challenge
- Settings on their blog must allow comments to be left by anyone
- The URL of their blog must be correct on the list
Mentors
I will be asking you to check the students on your list to see that they have completed the above things. If they haven’t could you please email me the names of students I should be taking off your list. I will add new students to your list if any are taken off. If you can take extra students please notify me as well.
Classes
I will be removing classes with incorrect URLs or those where the settings don’t allow comments – these are with pink countries. I am presently putting mauve colour on those classes where student blogs are listed on the sidebar. This makes it easier if teachers want to pair up students for commenting.
Teachers
Please contact me via email if you think your students should be left on the list even if they have only completed their about me post – maybe you have only had one computer lesson in the lab then have been on spring break. I will make allowances for other school activities that might have stopped your class participating in the challenge.
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My students created multimedia presentations for their social issue research papers. They shared their finished products on their edublogs…… http://mrsmaslowski.edublogs.org/
Hi Mrs.W I did my free choice on how India harnesses the power of the sun. Here is the link to my post .http://afascinatingblogbyjacob.edublogs.org/2016/03/29/india-harnessing-the-power-of-the-sun/
Dear Mrs.W,
I really like the week 3 challenge. I love how it is about how to help save the earth. I choose to do it on the Cyprus Plastic Ban. I think it is a really cool topic. You can check it out with this link!! http://afascinatingblogbycatie.edublogs.org/2016/03/30/plastic-ban-cyprus-sbc3/
Thanks for reading this comment!
Hello Mrs. W,
I did my free choice blog on the problem with plastic and how effective plastic is in every day life. Here’s my blog url to the post about plastic. http://afascinatingblogbysavannah.edublogs.org/2016/03/30/the-world-sbc-3/
Hi Mrs.W,
I was absent all of the week before Easter vacation and then I was on Easter vacation For one week so I did not get to comment to you, so I am going to try to catch up!
For my free choice I chose to write about student council. (I will leave the link on the bottom)
It would mean a lot to me if you could read it, Thank you!
Thank you SO much -Hailey
http://hailey45.edublogs.org/2016/04/05/student-council/
Dear Ms.W i have made a blog called Kaliyah&Hawaii and if you were wondering Kaliyah is my name and my blog is talking about how my name and Hawaii are realated heres the link please enjoy and have a great day!
Hi Miss W, I have a new avatar as you can see in this comment, you can also see my avatar on my homepage! Here’s the link http://mary25.edublogs.org/
I also have an About me page that you can. Here is that link http://mary25.edublogs.org/about-me-3/
I also wrote a post about Offline and Online me, This is the link http://mary25.edublogs.org/2016/03/22/online-and-offline-me/
I also recently put up the new Student Blogging challenge badge. I went to the student blogging challenge homepage and copied and pasted into widgets, to see the rest of my blog, you can click the fist link at the top. Thanks! -Mary
Good afternoon Mrs.W,
I did my free choice blog on what my dream house would be here is the link~Nadja
http://blogs.csdvt.org/nadjad/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
Hello!
I have finished week 3, sorry for being so behind in the blogging challenge. But I am ( starting to ) wrote about testing tips. Thank you for having the blogging challenge!
( http://sassyteemo.blogspot.com/?m=1 )
Hello I’m Willie and I completed this weeks free choice blog.
Here’s my blog url http://teamstem.blogspot.com/
Hi Miss W!
I made a brand new Avatar-Post! And I would really like for you to see it. I personally don´t think that you have EVER seen something like this! Its very UNIQUE and I really enjoyed writing this post. It means a lot to me and I think I was able to express myself well , on my Avatar-Post! URL: http://esme6pm.edublogs.org/2016/03/16/avatar-post-week1/
-Esme
Hey, Miss W!
Free choice blogs are the best blogs ever! I love to write and for this week, I wrote a couple of poems, which I love doing so much. My dad is a poet and he inspired me to write them recently.
Thanks for doing this for us!
D (http://twinks26.blogspot.com/2016/04/heartfelt-random-poems.html)
My students reflected on drama performances they were able to observe during school. It was an authentic audience experience for them and for the Drama Class and Group Interpretation Class students who were able to read and comment on their performances before they were judged at competition. Here is the link to my description and student individual blogs are on the right side rail. http://mrsmaslowski.edublogs.org/
Dear Miss W,
Here is a link to my post where I am asking what people think about the best name for my new puppy dog: http://ethan45yps.edublogs.org/2016/03/31/can-you-help-me-choose-a-name-for-my-pet-dog/
I have a poll that you can use to choose your favourite name for my puppy. Thank you for helping me choose my puppy’s name!
Ethan
Hi Miss W,
Here is the list of who hasn’t done what:
Christian does not have an About Me page
Cidney has not updated since 2015
Elise has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Elizabeth has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Ella has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Harmony has done a Student Challenge challenge and an About Me page, but I can’t access her Avatar post for some reason…?
Howard has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Jada does not have an About Me page, and has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Jahvarie has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Kaleo has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Maxi has not updated since 2015
Melissa has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Riana has an incorrect blog address registered, and has not done any Student Challenge challenges. I asked Riana (I know her), and she said she was having trouble with her blog. I also know her correct blog address, which is http://rianap123.edublogs.org/
Romie has not done any Student Challenge challenges
Yasmin does not have an About Me page
Was I supposed to remind them about this? If I was, then sorry, I didn’t remind them
-Bri
Hi Brianna,
I have been through your list and taken out those that didn’t have the correct posts. DO you want me to give you some more students further down the list that I know are doing the challenges?
Hi Miss W,
Sure, I would love to have more students who do the challenges! I’d prefer to have about 20 students, but I can have up to 27 students to mentor
Thanks
-Bri
G’day Brianna,
I have added some more 10 year old students to your list. All of them have at least one or more posts from the challenge. They are in the same colour a bit further down the list from your present group.
Also, I don’t mind how old the people I’ll mentor are. I’d prefer to have students that are 12 and under, though
Here is my post for free choice:
http://sarahroom9bnms.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/what-are-we-doing-to-help-save-our.html
I hope you find it inspiring and generally interesting,
All the best,
Sarah
sarahroom9bnms.blogspot.co.nz
Hi Miss W
Here is a link to one of my free choice posts
http://blogs.csdvt.org/zacharyd/2016/03/24/fantasy-baseball/
Dear, Mrs. W
I finished week #3. ~Trinity http://trinity23mww.edublogs.org/
hello everybody I have completed week one and week two challenges and I am happy to be a part of this blogging challenge.
week 2-http://blogs.csdvt.org/gideona/2016/03/26/how-to-leave-a-good-comment-on-a-post/
Hello, Miss W !
I reorganised my blog, and I hope that everything is good. I wish you would visit my blog and read some post http://students.weebly.com/weebly/main.php.
Thank you. Greetings!
Hi, Ms. W! I am writing about my favourite mountain ,,Kopaonik” on my blog. If you want you can visit it http://saransite.weebly.com/home/6
Miss W.,
Here is a link to my free choice post.
http://blogs.csdvt.org/tracer/2016/03/25/my-baseball-team/
Hi Miss W,
The free choice week was amazing! Thank you! Here’s the link to my free choice post: http://blogs.csdvt.org/taylork/2016/03/21/t-e-c-h-k-i-d-s-n-e-w-s/
Best Of Wishes, Taylor
Hello Miss.W,
It is Ella.
I had so much fun last week making my info graphic on making a good comment!I thought it was good for my first one!Here is the link to my info graphic: http://blogs.csdvt.org/ellap/2016/03/17/how-to-leave-a-cool-and-appropriate-comment/ . Also, My free write is about our OOTM [Odyssey of the mind ] a creative problem solving team competition. It was so fun! Here is a link:http://blogs.csdvt.org/ellap/2016/03/24/ootm-6-teams-5-wins/
Thanks,
-Ella
hi miss w here is my post
http://blogs.csdvt.org/asminn/2016/03/25/hover-board-are-awesome/
Hello Miss.W,
I had so much fun making my info graphic last week for the blogging challenge! I loved it! It was my first info graphic ever and I think that I did pretty good for my first try!Also for the free choice I did it about our OOTM creative problem solving competition!
Here is a link to my post this week:http://blogs.csdvt.org/ellap/2016/03/24/ootm-6-teams-5-wins/
Here is a link to my poslast weekt:http://blogs.csdvt.org/ellap/2016/03/17/how-to-leave-a-cool-and-appropriate-comment/
Here is my blog link: http://blogs.csdvt.org/ellap/
Dear Ms.Wyatt,
Once again, I have the greatest admiration for you for organizing this challenge. It is a great undertaking. I know how much time visiting the 28 blogs that you assigned me to mentor takes, so can only imagine how much of a commitment it is for you to manage nearly 100 times that many as there are 2,500 individual students taking part not to mention the class participants. And to do this twice a year!
I have just sat down and visited my 28 students for the third time this year and left them messages. This is my third year mentoring. I don’t have your stamina so only do this once a year. I look forward to it … and then I get demoralized. Perhaps this varies with the age group but I am finding that of the eleven year old students I am assigned on average 10% are really ‘on board’ with the challenge and that less than a third reply in any shape or form to the messages I post.
I suppose what gets to me is the students without mentors…most especially those that are really committed to the challenge or those who perhaps with a little bit of encouragement from a mentor might come on board.
I wonder what the experience of other mentors has been.
I know you will be taking students who are not participating off the list after Easter and think this is a wise idea.
I think the Student Blogging Challenge is a great enterprise and a marvellous opportunity for students to develop their blogging skills. I know my class got a lot out of it when we did it, learning about good quality comments, copyright and online safety and making connections with other bloggers all over the world.
Thank you for your patience,
With every good wish, Merry Beau.
here is a link to all about me http://blogs.csdvt.org/owenb/sample-page/
here is a link to my avatar post
http://blogs.csdvt.org/owenb/2016/03/11/avatar/
here is a link to my good comment post
http://blogs.csdvt.org/owenb/2016/03/22/please-give-me-good-comments/
Dear Ms.W.,
For my free choice activity I did an iMovie and here is the link to it. http://aloura28.edublogs.org/2016/03/24/whatever-after-high-book-review/ When you click on the link it will go down to your downloads and you have to open it.
Thank You Ms.W.
Dear Ms.W I made an about me page here is the link http://henryt10.edublogs.org/about-me-2/, I left comment on derek’s post here is the link http://derekkennedy5.edublogs.org/2015/10/02/pets-i-had/, I made an avatar, and I made a free choice post here is the link http://henryt10.edublogs.org/2016/03/18/bugs/. I made the free choice post because of a scholastic news article, and I was wondering if you could delete the comment I made on the march 2015 student challenge.
Hi Miss W,
This week I wrote about Student Council. At the end of my post I asked for people to tell me about their school leadership opportunities, and I already got a comment from a student named Grace in New Zealand! http://dulce19.edublogs.org/2016/03/23/student-council/
Thank you for having me in the challenge. It has been exciting to comment to students from all around the world. Have a good Easter! (Dulce)
Hello Miss W I have completed free choice and this is the link http://ty90.edublogs.org/2016/03/17/eric-berry/ . This challenge has really motivated me to post more things on my blog because I want to really participate. I would love it if you could read the post it would really mean a lot.
Hi Miss W,
I have finished my free choice and I picked this because I recently have received an ACSA AWARD. If you don’t know what that is here is a link to my post. http://davion47.edublogs.org/2016/03/19/acsa-award/
Hi Ms. W
I liked that there was a free choice. It was fun to make a blog post about what ever. Here is a link to my blog post
http://blogs.csdvt.org/matthewf/2016/03/21/149/
Hi. I have completed this week’s challenge. Would you like to take a look? You can see it here at http://oliviaglca.edublogs.org/2016/03/24/a-special-day/ I hope you enjoy.
Olivia
Kia Ora Miss W!
I have completed my task for this weeks theme, and I’ve incorporated some of the learning I’ve been doing in class. Here’s the link: http://rubeinaroom9bnms.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/man-vs-earth-sbc-week-3-sharing-planet.html
Thanks!
Hi Miss W
I have finished this weeks task.
come and visit my blog at
http://mayaroom9bnms.blogspot.co.nz/
Thanks Maya
Hi Miss W,
I have published my free choice post here is the link http://blogs.csdvt.org/jonahr/2016/03/22/new-baseball-team/
Dear, Miss W
Check out my commenting post
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CxjoY8S4yATUXaoWHkkN21BAFx0Ng4DwbbJbTecn578/edit#slide=id.g10e08e794e_0_49
Hi my name is Kira from Skyline schooling am in 4th grade and I saw your blog and wanted to write about Volkswagen.
Volkswagen Is a car company that has sold over 5 million cars to fifteen countries in the world. Volkswagen Cars from Nissan, Fiat, Volvo and other places have all been found to emit substantially higher tested in more realistic driving conditions, according to new data seen by the guardian. Research compiled by Adac, Europe’s largest motoring organization shows that some of the Volkswagen cars explained that they released over 10 times more pollution than normal.
Volkswagen could be in big trouble because families that work for the company might be fired because of what happened, but it was not there fault because they did not make the cars so they were tricked to. Also the company had to give back all the money and take the cars now Volkswagen is in big trouble one of the biggest car companies is going downhill.
Not only they company is in trouble but so is Germany the Volkswagen company is mainly in Germany so the place is most polluted. So more than 1,000 people died because of all the pollution and more of it is coming. So I think they should force Volkswagen to shut down so all the smoke will go away I also think that the world should have a no cars day where they all walk and ride bike. That is what I think should happen to Volkswagen and what the world should do also that is what I think about Volkswagen and what could happen to the company. I think they should get punched and not open the company ever again.
Hi Miss. W
This is Mia and I loved having free choice for the Student Blogging challenge I think it was very fun and creative.
Here is a link to my blog and my Free Choice post.
http://blogs.csdvt.org/miaw/
http://blogs.csdvt.org/miaw/2016/03/21/my-busy-crazy-everything-weekend/
Hello Miss W,
This weeks challenge was very easy however it was super fun. I wrote a lot this weekend and I put the # at the bottom of my post. I hope you come to comment on it!! Here is the link:http://blogs.csdvt.org/maevem2/2016/03/21/the-winner-is/
-Maeve 🙂 😉
Hi Miss W!
I have completed my free choice post. I really enjoyed writing it and I learnt some interesting things too.
Check it out at : http://joybnms.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/student-blogging-challenge-week-3-free.html
Thank you!
Hi Miss W,
I wanted to talk about a website that I had been loving. Please check out my post and try out the website yourself! Please take a look at my page headers, they were made on the same website and I was wondering if you liked them?
http://meghanaroom9bnms.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/canvacom.html
Thank you!
Hi Meghana,
I read that you had run a blogging session in your class and used Canva as part of it. Well done! That is a site I haven’t used yet. I will certainly be checking it out soon.
Dear Miss W
I have checked my URL and I have realised that it is wrong please could you change my URL on the student list.
Here is my actual URL : http://mariaroom9bnms.blogspot.co.nz/
Thank you