Student Blogging Challenge - Week 1 - I am...
Let the challenge begin! - Week 1 - I am...
We are a class of Y8 & 9 students (11-14 year olds) at Berkley Normal Middle School in Hamilton, New Zealand. The purpose of this blog is to showcase learning and continually keep students and whanau informed.
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Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Sunday, 6 March 2016
Blogger Leadership Challenge
Take Up the Challenge: Blogging Workshop Leader - Applications open now!
Consider yourself a blogging expert?
Fancy sharing your skills with others? Then this is the opportunity for you!
Applications are now open for Room 7 Blogging Workshop Leaders.
What is it? - You will be responsible for:
- Planning, crafting, and preparing your presentation (You pick the topic!) - What skills would you like to teach others? i.e. embedding videos etc.
- Sharing the outline of your presentation to Mr Aspden so that it can be shared with participants
- Facilitating a breakout session (a 10m workshop in the Kiva with 5-10 students)
- Booking the necessary laptops and workshop space
- Creating any resources necessary
- Collecting evidence of the breakout session
- Reflecting on the experience
How does it work?
-PLAN a lesson to teach a skill to a small group of students who are keen to learn your chosen skill.
-submit your lesson to Mr Aspden by the end of week 7.
Hints to prepare your lesson:
Think about your WALT - We are learning to... embed a video for example..
lesson moves:
-Hook students in
-Take students through a step by step process (perhaps having these steps in a google slideshow may help here)
-Make sure you take photos of students learning
-Make sure you reflect on your lesson.
-submit your lesson to Mr Aspden by the end of week 7.
Hints to prepare your lesson:
Think about your WALT - We are learning to... embed a video for example..
lesson moves:
-Hook students in
-Take students through a step by step process (perhaps having these steps in a google slideshow may help here)
-Make sure you take photos of students learning
-Make sure you reflect on your lesson.
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Student Blogging Challenge 2016
Student Blogging Challenge 2016
What’s this challenge about?
The challenge is run twice a year beginning March and October for a 10 week period each time.
It is organized by Miss Sue Wyatt (@tasteach) and help is given by Mrs Sue Waters and her team at Edublogs.
There are three separate sections:
- Educators who would like to mentor a group of students
- Teachers who have a class blog who want to connect with other classes globally
- Individual students who have their own personal blog and want to connect globally with other students
More Details:
- Students, mentors and classes taking part can add a special challenge badge to their blog.
- A twitter hashtag created each year #16stubc
- All blogs must be set to open to the world – the reader doesn’t need a password to leave a comment etc
The Activities Each Week:
- Each week a post is published with a list of activities for students to choose from. You only need to complete one activity each week, but if you want to do more you can.
- A twitter hashtag created each year #16stubc
- All blogs must be set to open to the world – the reader doesn’t need a password to leave a comment etc
The Activities Each Week:
- Each week a post is published with a list of activities for students to choose from. You only need to complete one activity each week, but if you want to do more you can.
Examples from previous years
About me – Creating their avatar and about me page so visitors get to know them – includes being digital citizenship and cybersafety
About me – Creating their avatar and about me page so visitors get to know them – includes being digital citizenship and cybersafety
Let’s comment – Teaching what makes a quality comment, how to connect through commenting and again cybersafety and digital citizenship
Using images – Teaches about using creative commons images, giving attribution for images, videos etc, tools for using images in posts
The other weeks of the challenge are based around a topic eg food, games, government, history, maths, nature etc
The final post for the challenge is an evaluation and audit of what they have done over the 10 week period of the challenge.
OK, so you think you might be interested in joining the next set of challenges?
Fill out the March 2016 Registration form at http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2016/02/20/student-registration-march-2016/
To keep track, fill in the 'Subscribe by Email' with your Berkley email in the sidebar so you will be notified when a new post is published.
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Blogging
How to Set up a Blog:
1. Search Blogger
2. Choose person on right (create new...)
3. Title = Your name
4. Add your address Nameroom7BNMS
5. In settings add author
raspden@berkley.school.nz
6. Template/ Background to change your background
7. Add a post "About me" 2 paragraphs describing you: Who you are
8. To view your blog click : View Blog
9. To add a new post click NEW POST on the blogger (Remember to give it a label so you can find this again.
Happy Blogging
The purpose of this blog is to showcase your learning to the wider community.
1. Search Blogger
2. Choose person on right (create new...)
3. Title = Your name
4. Add your address Nameroom7BNMS
5. In settings add author
raspden@berkley.school.nz
6. Template/ Background to change your background
7. Add a post "About me" 2 paragraphs describing you: Who you are
8. To view your blog click : View Blog
9. To add a new post click NEW POST on the blogger (Remember to give it a label so you can find this again.
Happy Blogging
The purpose of this blog is to showcase your learning to the wider community.
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