Edublogs Class Challenge 2013

Edublogs Awards 2013 – Class Blog

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The Edublog Awards started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes.  The purpose of the Edublog awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media.

 

Here are the categories in full – nominations are open from now through Sunday, December 1st

  • Awards_170px_02Best individual blog
  • Best group blog
  • Best new blog
  • Best class blog
  • Best student blog
  • Best ed tech / resource sharing blog
  • Best teacher blog
  • Best library / librarian blog
  • Best administrator blog
  • Most influential blog post of the year
  • Best individual tweeter
  • Best twitter hashtag
  • Best free web tool
  • Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast
  • Best educational wiki
  • Best open PD / unconference / webinar series
  • Best educational use of a social network
  • Best mobile app
  • Lifetime achievement

How To Nominate

  1. Write a post with your nominations on your blog, link to them and link to this site
  2. Use this form here to send us a link to your nominations

Nomination tips:

  1.  Nominate in as many categories as you want!
  2. You can’t nominate yourself ;)
  3. Nominations must be made somewhere public – your blog, a forum on a ning, a school website, etc.
  4. Even if you see your favorite has already been nominated, it is best to nominate them again
  5. Categories are competitive, and only the most nominated will make it to the voting round
  6. Share your nominations using twitter (#eddies13), facebook, Google+ and email

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20 Something Kids and 1 Kooky Teacher

I began the blogging and twitter journey not only to promote 5SK’s learning but also to find other teachers with similar interests and to keep up to date with advancements in education. I have followed one class blog in particular all year and its author continues to inspire and motivate me daily. Jennifer Bearden at http://20somethingkidsand1kookyteacher.com/ is amazing!

Jennifer’s blog showcases her wonderful writing skills and promotes student centred learning. I loved her letter to the students to introduce herself and her expectations of them and our students have watched the two greeting videos MANY times. The school district looks like an amazing place to work.

I OFTEN talk to my teaching partner (we share a class) about the programs run in Jennifer’s class. “Jennifer wrote today” often comes out of my mouth. 🙂 I have made a list of programs to run in 2014 and can’t wait to start. If you have a chance, look at the reading challenge. We have found this year that students often choose one type of reader and this is not beneficial to expanding their overall schema. Jennifer’s idea of 40 books in a variety of genres is fantastic.

You are an inspiration Jennifer Bearden!

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Edublogs Challenge 9A – A Great Post

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Soccer

I am a big soccer fan and player. My top 3 teams are:

  1. Barcelona FC
  2. Manchester United
  3. Brazil

I play social soccer and my team are winning the competition so far. I also play competition soccer and we made it to the Grand Final but the scoreline ended 4-2 to the opposition. I might be going to the Asian Cup and see Australia play.

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Edublogs Challenge 9A – A Great Post

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A Chinese Pug in a Himalayan Rug

Here is my post about what interests me the most.

‘Pug, pug!’ I hear my thoughts whisper, a small black, brown, cream or apricot dog with wrinkles spread on his face. A curly tail hits my ankle as I stroke his soft coat. A few minutes later I hear a rumble down the staircase. Sprinting down I see my gorgeous pug trying to wrap himself up in a blue and black rug twice the size of him! I say to myself, ‘what an adorable dog I own.’ I love pugs! What do you like about pugs? Who would be caught dead without one! Definetly not me!

Shahnti

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Edublogs Challenge 9A – A Great Post

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One of my Passions

Guinea pigs are one of the best pets available. For people who are allergic to hair, there are Skinnys which are hairless and are unfortunately found in other countries. For people who are not allergic to hair, there are normal ones. Here are all the breeds of cavies/guinea pigs: Shebas, Roans, Dalmatians, Agoutis, Argents, Self, Dabb, Rex, Swiss (found only in Switzerland), Alpacas, Texels, Shelties, Abbasinians, Perivians, Crested, Coronets, Teddies (only in America) and Himalayans. Every one of these breeds are unique. Females are called sows and males are called boars. A sow can have up to ten babies per litter.

Mikki

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Edublogs Challenge 6, Activity 6 – Aubin

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Hello,

Bonjour, Je mapple Aubin et je vie dans Bowen Queensland.Notve village et tres petit mais tres bien.Il fais toujour beau et nous avons tous se qu’ il faut .On a un centre comercial et plein dotre chose come la grose mangue.

My name is Aubin and I live in Bowen Queensland.Our town is really small but really good.We always have a good weather and we have everything we want. We have a shop and lots of more things like the Big Mango.

Big_Mango

Edublogs Challenge 7 – Connections (Jessika)

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I connect with friends and family using:

Phone – Nonny

Animal Jam – friends

Messenger – Friends & sister

Snap Chat – sister

Moshi Monsters – friends

Blogging – class and international classes

Face Time – friends in Adelaide

Bump – Connect with mum and sister

Skype – cousins, aunty and uncle

Kik – friends

 

Edublogs Challenge Week 8 – Questions

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Activity 1.

  • What makes a great post?
  • When you are out visiting blogs, what makes you stop and read a post?
  • How do you find great posts on a blog?

 

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Here is my response to the student blogging challenge question.

A great post is like a recipe, you have all your ingredients, then you mix them together, cook in a preheated oven, decorate and you’ve got yourself a mighty, magnificent post. I find colour, the title, editing, punctuation and a fascinating topic are always important if you want to grab your readers attention.

Shahnti

Family History -Geraldine

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 Ek is gebore in Pretoria Sui Africa op die 1st Augustus 2002. My ma is gebore in Kroonstad, Free State en my pa is gebore in Upingtong, Noord Kape. My ma het 1 sister en my pa 1 sister en jonger broer. Ek het 7 niggies and 1 nefie. My oupa and ouma bly in Pretoria en my oupa Wessels in Bothaville. Be de oupas is 80 jar oud.

 

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Activity 2: In my family we eat  foods like biltong, koeksisters, beskuit, droeworse, potjikos, pap, boboti and rys. Some recipes that have been handed down in the family are bobti and rys, appletert, and malu pudding.

Activity 3: In South Africa we have cultural events like Valcspete (cultural dance), Borere Spat ( sport day) and Braais (BBQ).

Activity 4: I go back 1 generation because my family and me moved to Australia. We moved here on the 9th of September 2005.

Activity 5: The most important invention that was created was TV. Back in South Africa some houses didn’t have electricity and was ran with gas or coal.

Geraldine

Edublogs Challenge, Week 7 – Connections

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Activity 1. Survey or poll the teachers at your school  to find out how they are connected. Did they know about Connected Educator Month? How do they connect with other teachers in their state? How do they connect overseas? How do they connect with family? What do they use to connect? Write a post about your results telling us some statistics about connectedness at your school.

Activity 2. Create a mindmap showing how you connect as a student. Include the tools you use to connect as well as who you connect to. Think carefully about all the ways you connect to different members of your family.

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Homework  Week 5– Create your own mindmap to share with the class, that shows how you are connected as a student. What tools do you use to connect with others?

If you can, enter information on your kidblog. How could you include a diagram? Possibly draw and take a photo, use Explain Everything App, make a PowerPoint/Keynote or use Word/Pages.