Week 8: Community

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A week or so ago, I took part in a global education conference. The people who presented and listened to all the sessions are part of a network of educators around the world. They have their own little community or network.

As a student or teacher what type of communities or networks do you have both in school and outside of school hours?

These communities might include

  • sporting groups
  • after-school activities
  • networks online such as Twitter, Facebook, Minecraft
  • local community groups eg gardening or Boy Scouts
  • country level groups
  • global groups

This week the theme to write about is community.

You might like to think about the following and mention some in your post.

  • The pros and cons of being in a community
  • Which communities you are part of now
  • Which communities you would like to join or be part of later in life
  • Roles within a community
  • Responsibilities when part of a community
  • How to find out about communities to join
  • Value of being in a community

Remember to have your post flipped to the magazine you need to have a great post as mentioned in previous posts in the challenge. This week I have flipped about 200 new posts to the magazine but I have also left comments about making sure you have included images and links within your great posts.

Keep visiting other students and reading posts from the magazine.

Next week

You will have a chance to nominate a great student and class blog for the Edublog awards. These blogs do not have to be from the Edublogs platform but just be a blog about education.

You will also have a chance to show how well your blogging has improved since beginning this challenge.

90 comments on “Week 8: Community”

  2. Leesa Johnson

    Good post. Communities play an important role in every person’s life because they can openly discuss any topic with a relevant subject expert. What type of community you join, it totally depends on you.

  3. izzygracee

    I really want to join in with this next year! Please look at my bookloving blogs at blogfrog.edublogs.org thank you all so much!!!!!!!!!!!!
    -BlogFrog xx 🙂

  14. rcrews47

    Hi Mrs. W,
    I have posted about my community and what we do together as one.
    Be sure to check out my post at http://raynenvpa.edublogs.org/

    Sincerely,
    Raynen.

  19. Mr. Geiman

    Miss W,
    My name is Mr. Geiman and I am a 4th grade teacher from Lancaster County PA. I have enjoyed having my students learn to blog using your wonderful student blog challenge for the past 2 years. I myself am learning about how to get students excited about writing and how to get them writing more quality writing. I want to thank you for all of your hard work it is truly appreciated. I was wondering if I would be allowed to use your 8 essentials to a good post and make a page on my class blog page where these are listed. I wanted to ask permission first and I will attribute it to you at the bottom of the page? If this is ok with you please email me and let me know. My email is adam_geiman@elanco.org
    Thank you again for all you do for our students.

    1. Miss W.

      G’day Mr Geiman,
      You can certainly add it to your class blog. Anything I create on the student blogging challenge is creative commons which is why you can just copy paste any posts or part thereof to use on your own blogs. Thank you very much for having your students take part in the challenge. I hope as a teacher you have also been able to connect with other teachers who are blogging.

  20. amelia

    Dear Mrs. W,
    Sorry if I haven’t been telling you about my blogs. I will keep up with it from now on. I have finished this weeks blog. Here is the link for it if you would like to see it- http://ameliavgms23.edublogs.org/2016/12/01/this-small-community/ . Well, like I said before, I apologize for not keeping you notified for when I post a new post on my blog. I will keep commenting.
    Thank You,
    Amelia V.

  21. allie

    Dear Mrs W.

    I apologize for not notifying you about my recent blogs. I have recently just written my community blog and i would love for you to check it out!
    Here is the link- http://alliesgms23.edublogs.org/ ( It is titled ” Im apart of..”)

    Thank you! – AllieS

  33. Thanumi

    Dear Miss W,
    I am Thanumi from Thailand. I finished a post about week 8 and I would really appreciate it if you could check it out. It is called ‘Being In A Community.’ Please check my post as soon as possible.

    My post URL is,
    http://thanumiabey.weebly.com/home/week-8-being-in-a-community

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