Student Blogging Challenge Week 10: Reflect and Celebrate

This is the final Student Blogging Challenge post until we start again in October.

It’s time to reflect and celebrate!

Week Nine Recap

Trophy image -- great work

Many students are enjoying sharing their best work or recommending other blogs.

You can find all the submitted tasks here.

Here is just a handful of the excellent work we spotted:

Lisa from Kazakhstan made an impressive post that compares Norway to Kazakhstan.
Richard told us all about Pokemon Go.
Fluffy showed us her wonderful colonial dressmaker diorama.
Des shared the instructions for making your own fan (great use of his own pictures too).
Josiah has a ‘weird word’ he wants to tell you about.
Horse lover Aubrey told us about her 6 dreams for the future.
Sienna made a Google Slides presentation about music.
Mrs. Hamman’s 5th graders explained how solar energy can improve our world.
Serge Galligani’s class reviewed and recommended many of the participants from this round of the STUBC.
You can look back at some of the great work on our 2019 Student Blogging Challenge Flipboard.

A Special Project: School Tour

Eric Balak is a 5th-grade teacher in Pennsylvania, USA. For the last few weeks, he has been working on a special project with his students for STUBC.

You might remember during week 5 we asked participants to tell us about their school.

Rather than sharing some text or images, Mr. Balak’s students made a comprehensive VR tour! View it below or click on this link to view it via the web (you don’t need viewers or the app).

Click on the links to visit the students who’ve added this tour to their blog. You might like to leave them some feedback!

The School Tour

Summary Of The Student Blogging Challenge

Let’s look at STUBC by the numbers…

Number of registered individual students: 1200
Number of registered classes: 140
Number of countries represented: 26

Number of tasks submitted

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

Week 1: Let’s Get To Know Each Other (600 posts)
Week 2: Connect Through Commenting (230 posts)
Week 3: Fun With Photos (366 posts)
Week 4: Catch Up Or Free Choice (333 posts)
Week 5: Schools Around The World (331 posts)
Week 6: Music (226 posts)
Week 7: Celebrations And Festivities (183 posts)

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

Week 8: Where in the world? (225 so far)
Week 9: Putting It All Together! (124 so far)

Week Ten Tasks

Task 1: Audit Your Blog

Part 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?

Part 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:

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

Task 2: Evaluate The Challenge

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

There is a separate survey for teachers and students.

Student survey

>> Click here to open the student survey