Hi everyone,

It’s the last week of term, and we don’t have any new Student Blogging Challenge tasks this week. So, I thought this would be the perfect time for people to catch up on some tasks! I have said this before, but blogging will form part of your grades on your reports this year – it has links to English and Digital Technologies. The following tasks are compulsory (i.e. you have to do them) as they are ASSESSMENT TASKS:

1. About Me page: Remember to be careful about how much personal information you include – ask me to check if you are unsure. There are a lot of examples on the Student Blogging Challenge website that might give you some ideas for how you could create your About Me page, or you could check out some of the pages from people in our class.
2. Commenting Guidelines: Write a post, create a video or create a poster about commenting. What sorts of comments do you want on your blog? Look at our class’s to get some ideas.
3. Visiting Other Students’ Blogs: Visit an overseas blog and leave them a comment (don’t forget to link back to your blog; you could also link to our class blog). Write a post on your blog about the overseas blog you commented on.
4. Use Images or Music Ethically: Find an image or a piece of music (check out our Creative Commons Resources to find a list of sources for Creative Commons images and music – and how to provide attribution). Add the image or music to a new post and write a poem or a story relating to the image / music. REMEMBER: Provide attribution.
5. Celebrations: Think of a special celebration in one country of the world. Find three images of the event. Under each image, give a clue as to the event. On the final line, write a bit more about the event for your visitors to read. Include a link to another website giving more information on the event. Remember to include attribution for each image and perhaps a question for your readers to answer.

THINGS TO REMEMBER:

• Please use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. You can type your post into a Word document and it will highlight errors for you.
• Please provide correct attribution for images. I will not approve your post if you haven’t provided attribution. Ask me if you need help with this.

Don’t forget about this! I want to set you a challenge…. by the end of Week 11, I would like to see if we are able to donate 100 000 grains of rice to the World Food Programme by answering the quiz questions. We have slowed down a little on this – we have now donated 33 990 grains. (We need to each donate about 3333 grains each: 100 000 / 30 people). You can complete as many quizzes as you like! Select on Free Rice Group WGS1008 and Login on the left hand side. Your login is your LiteracyPro login (except for you, Blake – I’ll let you know yours in class) and your password is WGS1008. Once you have logged in, you’ll see that you are subscribed to WGS1008. Select Play from this box, so that all of the grains you accumulate will be tallied against our class group. You can choose from quizzes on English (Vocabulary and Grammar), Maths (Multiplication Tables) and Geography (World Landmarks, Identify Countries on a Map, World Capitals and Flags of the World). If we achieve this, we’ll have a 30 minute fitness lesson on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of Term 2, Week 1 🙂

Enjoy the last week before holidays!

Miss Andrews