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The first few weeks of the challenge were mainly learning about blogging skills you need when working on public sites on the internet. You should have learned the following so far:
- Avatars – what they are, how they are used, and how to create one and upload it to your blog
- About me pages – the difference between a page and a post, what is private information, and what you can say on your blog, being a good digital citizen
- Commenting – what makes a great comment, what you expect from a comment on your blog, guidelines for blogging and commenting in your class
- Images, sounds, video – what is creative commons, how to find safe and usable images, what is an attribution and how to write it, websites with great images, creating your own images, using images for puzzles and games, an image paints a thousand words when writing a story or poem
- URLS – the difference between a BLOG URL when leaving a comment on someone’s blog you are visiting and POST URL when filling in weekly form or commenting on the challenge blog
This week’s activity is free choice
Have some interesting posts for your visitors to read when they get to your blog. Miss W will not going to give any clues as to what to put in your posts but remember the following, especially if you want a post flipped to our magazine. Also take note of the page titled ‘Post ideas’ above Miss W’s header.
Having read many student posts, Miss W came up with the following essentials in a great post. Be sure to include all in your post!
- catchy title
- includes at least one visual (with attribution) whether photo, cartoon, video or another web 2.0 tool like padlet or glogster
- interesting topic with the passion of the author coming through
- well written and not copy/pasted from somewhere else
- shows it has been proofread and spellchecked
- written in paragraphs – at least three of them
- includes links to other websites on similar topics – at least two of these
Those posts covering the seven things mentioned above will be added to the Flipboard magazine. Many students are forgetting to add links to other websites relating to the topic they have written about. Remember links show you have researched your topic well and found opinions of others to include in your post.
Help here from Edublogs for adding links to posts.
Still more time left this week?
- Read some of the posts in the Flipboard magazine – your teacher might want to create a class Flipboard magazine to add to your class blog
- Visit other classes this time in the lists above the header of the challenge blog or in the list included below
- Reply to any comments left on your blog especially if from a commenter.
- Check out the posts written by classes and students that are in our Google spreadsheets (Your posts on sidebar)
Remember YOU have to visit other blogs, leave comments and the URL of your blog before you will get any comments on your blog. This is how the conversations and connections get made – by visiting and commenting on other student and class blogs.
Check out these class blogs for students aged 7-9. Many students have their own blogs in the sidebar.
Creative thinkers, Penguinville, Mrs Avnor, Smith Kid Bloggers, Mrs Kundhi, Mrs Moore, CW East, Friends of 3rd Dimension, 3E News, La Decouverte – leave comments on the Welcome post for this blog
No form to fill in this week, instead leave a quality comment on Miss W’s post explaining your choice for your post. Also explain what you have done to improve your blog ready for your visitors in a couple of weeks.