Student Blogging Challenge Week 10: Reflection

This is the final Student Blogging Challenge post for 2018. It’s time to reflect and celebrate!

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

Week Nine Recap

Trophy image -- great workThere are already some great posts about coding.

You can find all the submitted tasks here. There will be more added over the coming days.

Here is some excellent work that has already been submitted:

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.
  • 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 Edubloggerwith 50 prompts for students.

Thank You

Many thanksThis 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

Week Ten Tasks

This week there are two tasks to complete.

Week 10 Tasks STUBC

Task 1: Audit Your Blog 

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

  • 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?

Part 2: Ask a student/teacher/family member who might not have read your blog to do an audit. In the same post as part one, write about your auditing experience and their answers to the questions below.

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:

  1. What were your first impressions of this blog?
  2. What captured your attention?
  3. What distracted you on the blog?
  4. What suggestions can you give me to improve my blog?

Task 2: Evaluate The Challenge

Please complete our survey so we know what you enjoyed most about the challenge and what we could do to improve things in the future.

Click here to open the form in a new tab.

Submit Your Post URL 

If you want a commenter and other participants to visit your final task on your blog, remember to fill in the Google Form.Examples of post URLS for STUBC

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