Commenting: This week it’s all about the comments!

(Copied & edited from this weeks Student Edublog Challenge post)

Blogging is all about having your voice heard and connecting with others who might like to read and comment on what you have written. But as in many things we do, there are some protocols bloggers in schools like to follow.

Check out this video about leaving quality comments. It was created for one of the very first blogging challenges  by Mrs Yollis’ grade 3 students

Your task this week is to visit 4 other class/student blogs on our blogroll. It might be the About Me page or another post you found interesting. Leave a quality comment on at least one post on each blog. Then to show that you visited them…

Write a SEPARATE post on your blog mentioning who you visited, which post you left a comment on and why, then include the comment you left. Hint: make sure you copy the comment before you hit the submit button. You can also do one at a time, “save” your draft, and come back to add another copy/pasted comment as you visit each site. Here are two examples from previous students in the challenge: Allegra and Meghana

Remember also to leave a link to your blog in the comment. I hope you make some great connections this week.

Happy blogging!

Create an avatar AND a post about it

As we have already created an ‘All about me’ post we are going to begin the challenge by creating an avatar to use on our blogs.  There are many different avatar creation sites on the web. I have explored many sites on the symbaloo of websites provided by Miss W on the week 1 challenge. Below are some of the avatars I created and links to the sites I used.

 

 

 

 

 

https://pickaface.net/create-avatar.html 

http://chibimaker.org/

https://www.cartoonify.de/

 

 

 

 

http://www.faceyourmanga.com/editmangatar.php

http://avachara.com/avatar/

http://www.pocoyo.com/en/pocoyizeyourself

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini/

http://apps.warnerbros.com/greatgatsby/avatarcreator/us/

http://www.dudefactory.com/

All of the sites I have included above did not require any registration. I found the easiest way to save it when complete was to do a screen shot or capture by selecting the Print Screen (PrtSc) button on the keyboard, open Paint, paste, crop and save the image as a JPG. From there it was as easy as going to the dashboard, selecting users, your avatar and following the steps from there.

Once you have created your avatar and uploaded it to your blog I’d like you to write a post about it explaining how it represents you. See mine below for ideas. Don’t forget to include a link to the site you used to create it. Have fun!

My Avatar

I chose this avatar to represent me because of all those I created, this was the one that looked the most mature. (Note I didn’t say the oldest) I gave my avatar reddish brown hair, hazel eyes and a broad nose. I also decided to put glasses on my avatar even though I don’t wear them all the time. I do need them when I am reading and working on the computer which is most of the time when I am in the library. I selected a green dress as it is one of my favourite colours to wear. The background I chose has flowers as apart from reading, gardening is my other passion. What do you think? Did I choose the right one?

I created this avatar using https://pickaface.net/create-avatar.html

 

 

I’m excited! Why? Because this term we are joining 135 classes from 16 countries across the globe who have registered in the student blogging challenge.

The challenge will involve weekly tasks all designed to improve blogging and commenting skills while connecting with other classes and students. Click on the badge in the sidebar to see the latest challenge.

Four students, Chloe, Emily, Lavinia and Sarah have also registered to take part in the student blogging challenge. They will join thousands of students from 40+ countries who have registered individually.

Happy blogging!