Week 10: Let’s Reflect!

This is the final Student Blogging Challenge post for 2018.

It’s time to reflect and celebrate!

We’re starting this topic a little early as some schools are finishing up for the holidays.

It's the final week of the Student Blogging Challenge. Let's reflect!

Week Nine Recap

Trophy image -- great work There are already some great posts about coding.

You can find all the submitted tasks here (or click on the week 9 box on the sidebar). There will be more added over the coming days.

Here is some excellent work that has already been submitted:

Mrs. Yollis’ class tried robotics.
Mrs. K’s class are making Dance Party videos. (You can try the Dance Party project yourself here. I did it with some students yesterday and it was a lot of fun!)
James tells us a bit about learning HTML and JavaScript.
The students at St. Francis share some of their Scratch and Espresso Coding work.
Malaika did an excellent job of completing three tasks.
Kaylie also did a fantastic job of completing three tasks about coding.
You can look back at some of the great work on our 2018 Student Blogging Challenge Flipboard.

Reminders

There are a number of important reminders this week:

Thank you for all your comments for Alex! He is enjoying going through them. Alex is currently traveling so stay tuned for some answers in the future.
The forms for weeks 1-6 are closed. If you’re still finishing off tasks from later weeks, you have about two more weeks until all the forms are closed. Remember, you can still complete tasks at any time in the future. You just won’t be able to submit them for our commenters to visit.
If you’d like to join us again for the next challenge in March, 2019, make sure you’re on our mailing list. You’ll get an email in February when registrations are open. Otherwise, check this blog in February for all the news.
While the Student Blogging Challenge is coming to an end, we hope this is not the end of your blogging journey. We encourage you to keep blogging and connecting. If you need ideas for your blog posts, check out this recent post on The Edublogger with 50 prompts for students.

Thank You

Many thanks This was my first time running the Student Blogging Challenge and I’d like to thank everyone involved.

To Sue Wyatt…

A BIG thanks goes to Miss W (aka Sue Wyatt/Tasteach). Despite officially stepping down from running the challenge, Sue has played a hugely important role behind the scenes leading our commenting team and tirelessly visiting student blogs. We appreciate you, Sue!

To our commenters…

Another big thank you goes to our team of commenters who provided an authentic audience for our students and classes each week. Your comments made a big difference to the confidence and motivation of our bloggers. We hope you’ll return again as a commenter next year.

To our participants…

It has been fantastic to see such enthusiastic participation from our students and teachers across the world! I hope you’ve all learned something and made some connections.

The Student Blogging Challenge will start again in March, 2019. Spread the word!

Summary Of The Student Blogging Challenge

Let’s look at STUBC by the numbers…

Number of registered individual students: 1797
Number of registered classes: 145
Number of countries represented: 27

Number of tasks submitted

These are the edited numbers after incorrect and duplicate URLs were removed.

Week 1: Introductions (934)
Week 2: Commenting (455)
Week 3: Images (395)
Week 4: Emojis (426)
Week 5: We’re All The Same… We’re All Different (331)
Week 6: Science (269)

The forms for these tasks are still open so the numbers may increase.

Week 7: Catch Up Or Free Choice (182)
Week 8: Celebrations And Festivities (240)
Week 9: Coding (148)
Week 10: Let’s Reflect! (43)

Week Ten Tasks

This week there are two tasks to complete. If you don’t have time to write your audit post, please just spend 5 minutes completing our survey. We’d really appreciate it!

Week 10 Tasks STUBC

Task 1: Audit Your Blog

Option One: Write a post on your blog reflecting on your participation in the challenge.

These are the sorts of prompts you could answer in your post:

How many weeks of the challenge did you participate in?
How many posts did you write in the ten week period?
How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers, or other visitors?
Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?
Which web tools did you use to show creativity on your blog?
What are your plans for your blog now? Will you keep posting?

Option Two: Ask a student/teacher/family member 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: