There is a lot to learn in this challenge so it will be running for a two week (fortnight) period. The next challenge will be posted on 2 April. It is also a chance for classes that have been on Spring break or holidays to do some catching up.
Admin for this challenge
- Thanks to all those students, teachers and mentors who have been checking the student list for students mentioned more than once. If you haven’t checked yet, please make sure you are only listed once.
- Also we still have some mentors not able to leave comments especially on those blogs from blogger or blogspot. Make sure you have Name/URL as an option when leaving comments.
- Some students (who already have a mentor) will soon be deleted from the lists if they have not been participating in the challenge activities.
- I have visited hundreds of blogs recently. I have left a comment, or flipped the post to our magazine or have mentioned your post in the next blogging challenge post. Have you found one of your posts mentioned yet?
- We now have a few more students who have been asked to be mentors. They will be leaving comments and giving hints just like the adult mentors.
Teachers: Here is a lot of information regarding images, creative commons and copyright which you can use with your students or to refresh yourself about what is acceptable or not on public blogs. The Edublogger also has a post on free image sources. Above the challenge blog header is a tools page containing a symbaloo with many tools to use on your blog – many relate to images.
Students and teachers please read this before doing the activities
This week’s activities are going to be fun but first there are some things you need to know so please read carefully.
I have been visiting many blogs over the last few weeks. Some students new to blogging have been writing some great posts while others who have been blogging for a bit longer have started adding videos and images to their posts.
Yes, this week we deal with using images, music and sounds in your posts.
But can’t I use any image, music or sound that is on the internet?
No, you must use creative commons or in some cases the fair use rule.
But where can I find these images, music and sounds? Can’t I use anything when I google an image?
No, your blog is public so you must use creative commons images, sounds, music and videos.
Sue Waters over at the teacher challenge has written a fantastic post about images, copyright and creative commons. I would suggest you all head over there to read the post. She explains about creative commons and the licences, attribution, how to find images for your blog and how to upload images to your blog. Most of this would be appropriate whether you are using Edublogs, blogger or any other blogging platform. This might be very wordy for some students, but Sue uses lots of images and how to do sections in her posts.
Other places to find information on creative commons
- Head to the creative commons website.
- Check out the CC wiki to find out what is happening in your country. What are the different licenses used?
- Teachers check out the education section of creative commons.
- Youtube allows creative commons for videos.
- Teachers: A fantastic guide to copyright, fair use and creative commons has been written by Ronnie Burt and I would suggest you read this to understand more about using images, music and video on your blogs. Also includes what might happen if you use an image etc incorrectly.
- Larry Ferlazzo also has a great “Best List for images” that you might want to check out as well.
Images and music for my powerpoint or slideshow:
Do you have compfight plugin for your blogging platform? Follow the instructions from Sue Waters’ post.
You will need to work out how to get the attribution to put on your posts. Check Sue Waters’ post to get more help and more places for images. This post from Edublogs explains how to add media in all its forms to your blog posts or pages. If using blogger, check out the posts from this blog.
Images
- Morguefile
- Open ClipArt
- Pics4learning
- Photosforclass including a review by CommonSense Education and how to cite
Make sure you check out the links under creative commons in the sidebar of the challenge blog.
Music and sound effects
Jamendo, CCMixter, post with 14 websites for music, post with 20+ websites for music, post with 55+ sites with sound effects
Now for the activities for this fortnight
Activity 1. Do some more research on the topic of attribution and licenses and perhaps create your own class video about using images, music and videos in class.
This video is the reaction of students in Mrs Yollis’ class when she mislabelled their artwork. How would you have felt?
Activity 2. Find an image or piece of music. Add it to your post (with attribution) and write a poem relating to the image or music. Invite your readers to write their own poems. Here is Fernando’s example, Samantha is confused
Activity 3. Similar to activity 2. Find an interesting landscape image (include attribution). Write the beginning of a story relating to your image. Remember to include a conflict of some sort between your characters. Invite your readers to finish the story. How many different endings can you get? Which ending do you prefer? You might need to visit some other bloggers and invite them to finish your story. Remember to leave the URL of your post for them to click on.
Activity 4. Write a sentence using just images – no words OR find 5 images that create a story – again no words only the attribution for each image.
Activity 5. Create a slideshow, photo gallery or poster about your interests to add to your about me page or as a separate post. Your final slide should include attribution for each image.
Activity 6. Create your own images and add to a post of your choice. In your post add a link to the website or tool you used to create your image.
Other options for creating your own images include:
- Comic Generators like MakeBeliefsComix.com, ToonDoo
- Photo Editors like Befunky, fd’s Flickr Tools
- Tag Cloud Creators such as Wordle
Mixing up your images using these types of tools can really spice up your posts! Leave a comment on this post, if you or your class can recommend some other image sites to add to this list.
Activity 7. Zoom out from an image
We first tried this activity in the challenge in September 2010. Choose a picture, and have your readers zoom out, so to speak, by leaving comments. Check out the example from Huzzah who finished their story. If doing this activity, include the word ‘zoom’ in your title so I can find it easily. Remember to give attribution. Most important here is to read previous comments, so you can add to the story.
Check out these zoom pictures: Becky, Jacqueline, Abbey
Activity 8. Go back to previous posts
If you have used images in any previous posts you have written, then you are ethically obliged to give the correct attribution or take the image out of the post if it does not have the right creative commons license. Samudra wrote a great post about using wikipedia commons.
Activity 9. Create a jigsaw from your image. Mrs Schmidt’s class has done this using Jigsaw Planet . Here is her explanation
Last week (2014) my students made some jigsaw puzzles about famous places in our area. First each student created one Power Point Slide showing a photo and some facts about a location in our area. They saved the slide as a JPEG and then uploaded it to Jigsaw Planet. Once the puzzle was created, they published a link to it on their Kidblog. Click on Niamh’s puzzle link.
Activity 10. Write a post about different websites to find creative commons images. Are there any widgets you can add to your blog to make this easier?
Still got time left this fortnight (two weeks):
- Visit other student and class blogs – leave some quality comments
- Teachers – have you started visiting blogs listed on the class list of blogs? Maybe pair up your students with those on the other class blogs.
- Reply to comments on your own blog
- Start using tags and categories with each post you write to make it easier for people to find posts on certain topics. Make sure you have the tags and categories widgets in your sidebar.
- Have at least five other student blogs linked on your sidebar – students from other classes and schools – not your own. We will need this for a game we play in a couple of weeks.
Try to have a few different headings like
My Blogging Friends
Other Class Blogs
Having lots of links to student blogs from other countries will help spread the game.
Here are the instructions for adding links to your sidebars.
Edublogs, Blogger, Kidblog – not sure if this widget goes on the class page or each student page
Still got time to visit more posts that couldn’t be flipped to the magazine
Chloe (Australia), Madison (Australia), Katelyn (Australia), Skye (USA), Lily (Australia), Jessica (Australia), Jennifer (USA), Mikayla (USA), Mia (USA), Jose (USA), Trinitty (USA), Noor (USA), Anneliese (Australia), Beck (USA), Andrew (USA), Jared (USA), , Dom (USA), Dulce (USA), Nelly (USA), Deondray (USA), Sarah (USA), Iqra (USA), Kennedy (USA), Autumn (USA), Lisbeth (USA), Bryanna (USA), Emily (USA), Sabrina (USA), Madison (USA), Keith (USA), Gavin (USA), Georgia (Australia), Madison (USA), Cicely (USA), Haley (USA), Kim (USA), Abby (USA), Lily (Australia), Justin (USA), Casey (USA), Brooklynn (USA), Marina (USA), Mohamed (USA), Lexie (USA), Ralphy (USA), Mahmoud (USA), Kenaysha (USA), Yahshua (USA), Makaela (USA), Sarah (USA), another Sarah (USA), Raya (USA), Mari (USA), Charlotte (Australia), Taelor (USA), Leah (USA), AJ (USA), Erandi (USA), Kira (USA), Marshall (USA), Fern (USA), Angela (USA), Chris (USA), Ava (USA),
These students have been leaving comments on blogs: Jena, Chloe,
Tawnie, Giselle, created a great post about commenting
Angela has used images to help show how to comment on her blog
FluffyWhiskers , Emily, created a powtoon about commenting
Raynen, Mikaylah, Charlize, created a video
George (Excellent post on comments recommended by a teacher)
Riley asked me to publicise this story about alpacas, Brady writes posts about superheroes, would you prefer this or that by Tayne, Austin tells us about a setter, Jessica loves glittery, Everett loves writing about household items,
Have you checked out the continent song by Mrs Amri’s class?
Mrs Smith’s class have an alphabet soup with lots of links to student posts.
Mrs Lehane’s class tell you about themselves and Melbourne
Did any of Mrs Wong’s students visit your class blog and leave a comment?
Most important learning from this fortnight’s challenge is:
Use creative commons images, not just any image on the net. Always include attribution of where you found the image. Compfight plugin does this for you.
PS If you have done the blogging challenge before, you will find these activities are nearly the same each time. If you have ideas for different activities please leave a comment on this post.
Flipboard magazine
I will only be adding posts to the flipboard magazine that:
- are written in paragraphs
- have been proofread
- include an image, sound or video with attribution
So make sure you have taken note of this week’s learning about creative commons.
Miss W visiting your blogs
From this week onwards, I will only be visiting blogs where students or classes have left the URL to the post in a comment with an explanation. If your teacher is moderating your posts, you will need to wait until it has been published before giving me your URL. Check out the difference between a blog URL and a post URL.
Blog URL: http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org
Post URL : http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2015/10/10/raise-your-voice/
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
The next challenge will be about global issues and on March 25 there is an easy activity you could take part in called Earth Hour. Visit their website and add their badge to your sidebar if you are going to write a post relating to their theme or activity. I suggest using the 160×600 if adding to sidebar. If adding as a logo or banner in a post use the 728×90 version.
Earth Hour began in Australia ten years ago so we are having a special celebration. Check it out here. They also have special posters you can use on your blog.
Teachers: Earth Hour curriculum kit based on Aussie curriculum but could be adapted for other countries.
Students: Activities for kids to do at home and school relating to Earth Hour.
Hi my name is Gunnar here is my attributions post https://funhousegunnarn.edublogs.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=33&action=edit
hi I am payton I finish week 3’s challenge http://funhousepaytonv.edublogs.org/attribution/
HI Mrs. W can you please go check out my blog post I worked REALLY hard on it
blog post for week 4: http://shelby6.blogspot.com/2017/04/water-pollution_11.htm
my blog: http://shelby6.blogspot.com/
Hey Mrs. W please go check out my blog post.
Blog post for week 3: http://shelby6.blogspot.com/2017/04/friends.htm
My blog: http://shelby6.blogspot.com/2017/04/friends.html
Dear Ms. W,
Please come and read my stories/puzzle for Week 3 at http://blog.elanco.org/davison503/2017/03/24/zoom-out-stubc17/, http://blog.elanco.org/davison503/2017/03/24/my-edited-photo-stubc17/,http://blog.elanco.org/davison503/2017/03/24/the-trip-to-paris-what-happened-next-stubc17/ and http://blog.elanco.org/davison503/2017/03/22/try-my-puzzle-stubc17/. Thanks!😇
Hi Miss W,
Most of my brilliant bloggers have created at least one post using creative commons images. Below is a link to four of the best.
http://tenambit15.edublogs.org/2017/04/11/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-issue-2-2017/
http://funhousejaydenb.edublogs.org/2017/04/07/today-you-will-leared-adout-commenting/hes hoe to comment
hes my attrbution blog http://funhousejaydenb.edublogs.org/2017/04/07/this-week-i-learned-about-attribution/
Hi Ms. W! My name is Kallie. This is the like to my blog where you can find my post for the third week of the blogging challenge about attributions. I used compfight to make a post about me. I hope you enjoy it!
http://funhousekallieh.edublogs.org/
this is my attribution page http://funhouseblaked.edublogs.org/attributions/
from blake
Blake, the answer to your question is no hence the Miss W.
http://funhousesawyerc.edublogs.org/attributions/
This is my Attributions page!
hi miss W. here is my photo attributions page.
http://funhouseoliviam1.edublogs.org/2017/03/31/attributions/
From olivia
This is my attribute. Happy Friday!
http://funhouseemilys.edublogs.org/attributions/
This is my attributions page http://funhousejacobr.edublogs.org/2017/03/31/attributions/
Jacob
This is my photo and video protect
http://funhouseambrosev.edublogs.org/2017/03/31/attributions/
Hi Ms.W this is my how to comment page http://funhousejacobr.edublogs.org/how-to-comment/
From,jacob
This is my photo attribution post.
http://funhousedestanyc.edublogs.org/2017/03/31/i-love-cats/
From, Destany
Hi Mrs W,
This is my week 3 images and attributions post.
http://chloemctps16.edublogs.org/2017/03/30/a-mistaken-trip/#comments
And
http://chloemctps16.edublogs.org/2017/03/30/whats-my-idiom/#respond
Here’s the link to Noah’s image gallery post. http://mrsmckelvey.edublogs.org/2017/04/04/my-favorite-things-photo-gallery/
Hi, Miss W.
I have done a speed paint video on my blog. You don’t have to check it out. It’s pretty long, like 7 minutes long. Here’s the link to the video anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByJi00zGna8
Sincerely,
Natalie
Dear Miss. W,
I am Thanumi from Thailand. Did you check my slideshow yet? If not, please check it.
http://thanumiabey.weebly.com/home/week-4-activity-5-a-slideshow-about-my-interests
Regards,
Thanumi
Dear Miss. W.,
I completed week 3, activity. Please check it out!
http://thunyamasblog.weebly.com/home/week-3-photos-and-videos-activity-3
sincerely,
Thunny
Dear Miss W,
I completed another activity for week 4. Please check my post.
http://thanumiabey.weebly.com/home/week-4-activity-5-a-slideshow-about-my-interests
Regards,
Thanumi
Hi Miss W.!
I have completed My post Week 3 Activity 3 for this week. Also, I would really appreciate if you could also think of an ending!
Go check it out at: http://mariannera.weebly.com/blog/week-3-activity-3-find-an-image-or-piece-of-music
E L L A
Hey Mrs. W,
I finished activity two and three on my blog.
Take a look:
http://dylan09vca.edublogs.org/2017/03/31/image-story-week-3/
http://dylan09vca.edublogs.org/2017/03/31/week-3-poem/
Aloha Miss W,
Please check out my post! http://hmssarah.edublogs.org/2017/03/27/it-finally-happenedlife-updates-3/
~Sarah
Hi Miss W
I have finished week 3 I made a puzzle.
Here is the link to my post I also added some music.
https://maddisonw617.edublogs.org/2017/03/27/my-puzzle/
Hope you enjoy!
Maddison
Dear Miss W,
Here is the post for my zoom picture: http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/2017/03/29/sbc-week-3-activity-7-zoom/ Can’t wait for next week’s challenge!
~Angela
http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/
Dear Ms. W,
I am Thanumi, the sixth grader from Thailand. I completed another activity for week 4. Please check my post.
http://thanumiabey.weebly.com/home/week-4-activity-2-write-a-poem
Regards,
Thanumi
Hey Miss W,
I have completed another activity. Here is the link if you’d like to check it out: http://madisonmtps.edublogs.org/2017/03/29/my-pizza-rap/#comments
Dear Miss W,
I have completed Week 4, activity 9, create a jigsaw puzzle. The link is below.
http://anisha6.weebly.com/home/week-4-activity-9-create-a-jigsaw-puzzle
Regards,
Anisha
Dear Ms. W,
I have completed my Week 3: Activity 2 :Write a Poem
Here the link to my post
http://fashionrenayablog.weebly.com/blog/week-2
Sincerly,
Renaya
Dear Miss W.,
I have completed my week 4 activity 7: the zoom game
Here is the link to the post.
http://fluffywhiskers.weebly.com/home/week-3-activity-7-the-zoom-game
Regards,
Natacha
Dear Miss W.,
I have completed my week 4 activity 6: Create your own image.
Here is the link to the post.
http://fluffywhiskers.weebly.com/home/week-4-activity-create-your-own-images
Regards,
Natacha
Dear Miss W.,
I have completed my week 4 activity 4: Create a sentence with images.
Here is the link to the post.
http://fluffywhiskers.weebly.com/home/march-28th-2017
Regards,
Natacha
Dear Miss W.,
I have completed my week 4, activity 2: Make a poem. Here is the link to the post.
http://fluffywhiskers.weebly.com/home/week-4-activity-3-make-a-poem
Hi Mrs W,
I have completed my post for images and attribution. Here is the link: http://madisonmtps.edublogs.org/2017/03/28/can-you-guess-these-idioms/
Chickinator’s Activity 3:
Please check out her beginning. How will this story continue?
https://5owlssose.edublogs.org/2017/03/25/the-fawn-and-its-huntsman/
Hello Miss W,
I tried making an awesome post for activity three, and I think it might be worth a view, as it covers an important issue.
Shahreen
Check out my post!
http://shahreenisastudentblogger.blogspot.com/2017/03/run-short-story-by-shahreen-kamal.html?view=classic
Dear Miss W,
I have finished Week 3, Activity 4. Please check it out.
This is my blog post URL:
http://elizaw617.edublogs.org/2017/03/27/story-with-only-images%F0%9F%A6%84-buttons-big-adventure/
From Eliza
Hi Mrs. W I have completed week 3 activity 3. Would you like to see my post?
Here is the URL: http://laurenw617.edublogs.org/2017/03/27/the-adventures-of-sami-the-schnauzer/ Hope you Like it.
Kind regards
Lauren B
Hi Miss W!
I’ve completed Week 3 Activity 4: Write a sentence using just images
http://mariannera.weebly.com/blog/week-3-activity-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children
E L L A
Hello Miss W,
I have completed my Week 3 activity 6: Create your own images and add to a post of your choice.
http://mariannera.weebly.com/blog/week-3-activity-6-create-your-own-images-and-add-to-a-post-of-your-choice
E L L A
Hi again Miss W,
I am finished with my Week 2 Activity 3
http://karahsblog.weebly.com/its-blog-time-2017/week-2-photos-and-videos-finish-my-story
Friendly Blogger,
Karah
Hi Miss W,
I recently finished my Week 2 Activity 2… Sorry this was late…
http://karahsblog.weebly.com/its-blog-time-2017/week-2-photos-and-videos-poems
Friendly Blogger (I hope),
Karah
Dear Miss W,
I am Thanumi, the sixth grader from Thailand. I have finished Week 3 – Activities 4 and 9. Please check my posts as soon as possible.
Activity 4 – http://thanumiabey.weebly.com/home/week-3-activity-4-my-picture-sentence
Activity 9 – http://thanumiabey.weebly.com/home/week-3-activity-9-my-jigsaw
Dear Miss W.,
I have finished my week 3 activity 3: Finish the Story and 5: Create a slideshow.
activity 3: http://fluffywhiskers.weebly.com/home/week-3-activity-3-write-the-begining-of-a-story
activity 5: http://fluffywhiskers.weebly.com/home/week-3-activity-5-create-a-slideshow
Dear Miss W.,
I finished my week 3: activity 2. In the post, I wrote a poem about cats. Please check it out!
http://thunyamasblog.weebly.com/home/week-3-photos-and-videos-a
sincerely,
Thunny
Dear Miss W,
Hi! I have completed my Week 3, Activity 2 and 3. Below is the link-
Activity 2
http://anisha6.weebly.com/home/week-3-photos-and-videos-activity-2-poem
Activity 3
http://anisha6.weebly.com/home/week-3-photos-and-videos-activity-3-what-i-love
Regards,
Anisha
Sorry Miss W! I finished activity 4 not 3. I apologies for my mistake. The corrected link is below-
http://anisha6.weebly.com/home/week-3-photos-and-videos-activity-4-what-i-love
Thank you!
Hi Miss W,
I have completed my week 3, activity 3. Could you please visit my post. Here is the URL:
http://allegraw617.edublogs.org/2017/03/24/the-lion-and-the-boy/
Kind regards,
Allegra
Hi! Please come visit my blog and leave a comment on my STUBC Week 3 post!
Visit: http://blog.elanco.org/stern338/2017/03/22/blissful-bffs-stubc17-week-3/
Have a great day! 🙂
Hi Mrs. W!
I had just realized the blog challenge has started, and I would really like to join. I have participated the past 3 times, and I love doing it. But, my teacher forgot to write a post reminding us. Can I still join somehow?
Here is my blog URL if that helps: http://blog.elanco.org/covertcjv/
Hi Rayne,
Great to have you join us again. Here is the link to fill in the form to register. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/02/23/register-as-a-student/
Hi! Please come visit my blog and leave a comment on my Song-like Sonnet post! 🙂
Here is the link: http://blog.elanco.org/stern338/2017/03/22/song-like-sonnet-stubc17/
Have a great day! 🙂
Hello miss W.
Here is a link to my blog i hope you get a chance to have a look, if not that’s all good.
http://mahsbnicole123.blogspot.co.nz/p/about-me.html
Thanks Nicole.
Hello Miss W Here is the link to my blog hope you can get in.
http://mahsbrosien123.blogspot.co.nz/
Hi Rosie,
Thanks for leaving a link to your blog. But remember, if you want me to visit you need to include the URL to an exact post or page rather than just your blog.
Dear Miss W.,
I have completed my week 3: Activity 9: create a jigsaw from your image. I use jigsawplanet.com for the puzzle, and compfight.com for the cat image. Please check it out!
http://thunyamasblog.weebly.com/home/week-3-photos-and-videos-activity-9
Sincerely,
Thunny
Here is my blog post for this week
https://bigstuffblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/coffee/
Hi Miss W,
Please visit my post for this week and from last week arg the following URLs:
http://devikaw617.edublogs.org/2017/03/23/whats-your-favourite-animal/
http://devikaw617.edublogs.org/commenting-guidelines/
http://devikaw617.edublogs.org/sample-page/
Thank you so much.
Devi
Hi Miss W,
I have completed last weeks challenge and may you please visit both of the following links:
http://devikaw617.edublogs.org/commenting-guidelines/
http://devikaw617.edublogs.org/sample-page/
Thanks Devi
Hi Miss W!
I’ve finished my Week 3 Activity 9: Create a Jigsaw.
http://mariannera.weebly.com/blog/week-3-activity-9-create-a-jigsaw
E L L A
Hi! I’m a mentor, and I have a question about a student post: https://trinittydh.edublogs.org/2017/03/15/my-top-5-favorite-artist/
If a student uses “share” from Vevo or Youtube and embeds that video on their blog, are they in violation of copyright?
Hi Beth,
The student is sharing from a site eg YouTube that has already made the decision that the video is not breaking copyright so it is able to be shared by its viewers. It is like me using the videos I have for the commenting post in the challenge.
Hi Miss W,
I just did this week’s post. Please have a look!
http://sidsdatabase.edublogs.org/2017/03/22/images/
Sid
Hello. Miss. W,
Come and check out my awesome post (linked below)
http://claudiaw617.edublogs.org/2017/03/21/week-three-zoom-out-activity-seven/#comment-5
Here is a link to my blog.
http://claudiaw617.edublogs.org/
Thanks,
Claudia
Hi Miss W,
I have completed activity 9: make a jigsaw out of your picture.
Here is the link to the post!
http://emilyw617.edublogs.org/2017/03/21/photos-and-vieos/
Thanks,
Emily 😁
Hey Mrs. W, I am concerned about the creative comments photos activity. I had quite a lot of memes on my blog. Isn’t the purpose of a meme to be shared? I don’t know, I’m stressed already and this just makes me even more stressed. What do you suggest I do?
Here is my blog site
http://sarahk1029.edublogs.org/
Hi Sarah,
As you say, memes are created by other people who want it to then go viral. If you are sharing a meme from someone else, it is their responsibility to make sure the images used are creative commons or based on fair use rule. If YOU created your own meme, then YOU would need to make sure the images are acceptable.
Hi visit my page and finish off my story called the village.
http://katies7a2017.edublogs.org/
G’day Katie,
I would love to visit and finish off your story but you haven’t left the URL of the actual post for my to read.
Dear Miss W.,
I have completed my week 3: Activity 9: “Create a jigsaw from your image” using jigsawplanet.com for the puzzle, and compfight.com for the image.
Please check the following link: http://fluffywhiskers.weebly.com/home/week-3-activity-9-create-a-jigsaw
Sincerely,
Natacha
G’day Natacha,
What a great image. I took 1 minute 8 seconds to complete your tiger.