Here is an international blog challenge. Sign up at this link and in a few weeks time you will be set challenges. The best thing is that your blog will be in a place where more people will have access to it. You have to remember, the more you comment on other people's blogs, the more your blog will get viewed. Make sure you have this done by the end of the week.
What is the challenge about?
The challenge is about getting students to blog and develop a world wide audience while doing so rather than just their teacher and classmates.
How can my class be involved?
Your class can be involved as a class blog or each student with their own blog can be involved in the student section of the challenge. If students are new to blogging they take part in the beginner section; if they have been blogging for about 6 months or so then the veteran section; if they don’t have their own blog, they might want to take part in the commenter section. This year there will also be activities for a whole class to do.
As the teacher, what do I have to do?
If you have a class blog, make sure the link to this blog is on your blogroll somewhere to make it easy for your students to find the challenges. If you would prefer, you can copy and paste the challenges into your own class blog and adapt them to suit the needs of your students.
Mainly, keep reminding the students of the challenge and allow them time in and out of school to complete the activities.
How do I join the challenge as a student?
There will be a post on this blog in both February and August, about three weeks before the challenge begins. This will be a google form for each participant to fill in. This document will then be converted to a page called Student participants and you will be able to see all the students and links to their URLs so you can visit them to read posts and leave comments. Students will be sorted according to age making it easier for you to visit.
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