Student blogging challenge
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The document describes a student blogging challenge created by Sue Wyatt to teach students about blogging and building an international professional learning network. The challenge involves students starting their own blogs and commenting on class blog posts. Over the years, participation in the challenge has grown from 10,000 students in 26 countries to almost 18,000 students in 74 countries. The challenge consists of weekly activities over 10 weeks to teach students blogging skills and connect them with an international audience.
Student blogging challenge
- 1. Student Blogging Challenge Presented by Sue Wyatt Twitter: @tasteach
- 2. My blogging history Met Sue Waters online – can’t remember how January 2008 Began reading blogs recommended by Sue End of January – began a personal blog Early February – began a class blog March – joined Twitter
- 3. Why a class blog? Had started visiting other class blogs Introduce internet safety in a practical way Teach students about basic blogging Students leave comments on teacher posts Students write posts for class blog Students earn the right to have their own individual blog by end of May
- 4. Why create a challenge? By late July, I realised I was connecting globally with teachers through Twitter, why couldn’t my students also do the same through their blogs
- 5. Value of a PLN Realised why I had joined Twitter 6 months earlier Mentored and supported by Sue Waters Only teacher in my school (and state of Tasmania) attempting blogging at that stage In regular contact with Jan Smith (Huzzah) from Canada, Inez Pinto (Inpi) from Portugal and Paul Bogush from CT, USA Have a competition in our classes to find the most improved blogger and the most global blogger
- 6. The challenge is off and running 17 943 136 Sept ‘10 13 735 74 March ‘10 15 513 101 Sept ‘09 13 240 Many on class blogrolls 79 March ‘09 10 250 26 Sept ‘08 Countries Students Classes Date
- 7. Activities in the challenges Welcome – activities include ‘About me’ page, avatar and post about why join the challenge Week 1 – includes commenting guidelines, writing comments, clustrmap and global audience widgets Week 2 - includes blogroll and post categories Week 3 – includes comparing comments, are you responding? Week 4 – translator and widgets about your area, international blogs Week 5 – adding links and images to posts Week 6 – BAD 2009, climate change Week 7 – holidays and vacations Week 8 – positive digital footprint, count out three for comments Week 9 – write a challenge, look at international blog Week 10 - topics and questions for next year
- 8. Badges etc For all participants and helpers, Edublogs (thanks, Sue Waters) creates badges for sidebars each year
- 9. The makeover of the new blog This year Edublogs (Sue Waters, Ronnie and Tammy) did a makeover of the student challenge blog Feel free to visit and leave comments or ask questions. http:// studentchallenge.edublogs.org