Blogging Challenge

Hi team! Even though it is technically school holidays a few of you have emailed asking for extra work to do so I thought I'd keep posting the weekly Student Blogging Challenges. As I said in my email these are optional to do.

The theme of this weeks blogging is: "Connect Through Commenting!" You need to think about what makes a blog comment high quality, or low quality. In the poster below are some ideas to get you thinking about the topic.

Your task this week is to share your commenting guidelines on your blog - either in a text post, a poster you've made or any other creative ways you can think of! If someone wanted to leave a comment on a blog, but had never done it before, what things do you think they need to know?

Publish the post, and submit the URL of the post to this google form so you can receive comments: https://forms.gle/9gJPVR7W7rKMSHvX8

Then, look at other people's blogs and leave some feedback 

https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/mar-2020-students/

Happy blogging!!

Week Seven + Eight: The Blogging Challenge Begins

This week, there are three tasks in the blogging challenge. Everyone has two weeks to complete the Week One tasks, meaning we will each have two sessions blogging to achieve these three things.

Week Seven

1. Make your own avatar, and upload it to your blog. Go to http://avatarmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml and make an avatar that looks like you. Download it once you are done. On Blogger, go to settings, user settings, user profile - edit, and update your profile photo.

Then, write a new blog post explaining how your avatar looks similar to you. Upload the photo of your avatar to this blog post too.

Fill out this Google form with the URL of your blog post - this is how others are able to see and comment on your blog! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf47bCnHAsujvxr6ORhuIzv7QsWxj96lqNnYPeu_-a9jaGBoQ/viewform


Week Eight

2. Write an 'About' column on your page, introducing yourself to other bloggers. Tell people your first name, your age/year level, and about some of your interests. Go to Blogger, layout, then add a sidebar gadget 'Text.' Click save arrangement once you have written a little about yourself.

3. Visit other people's blogs and leave comments! Scroll to the bottom of this page https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/mar-2020-students/ and select some blogs to look at. Read what the bloggers have posted, and comment on their posts.

2020 OIS Swimming Sports

Today was our annual OIS Swimming Sports. For three hours, students swam, swam and swam some more! Room 13 students swam in a range of 25m and 50m races, as well as in the house relay. While Rata may have won the house relay, Konini took the overall Swimming Sports win. A big congratulations to everyone who participated and made the day such a great success!

    

Week Five Blogging Task

It is a brand new month - March! Have a think about what events are coming up this month.. there is the school swimming sports, triathlon, maybe you have some exciting sports games or plans for the weekend!

What are three things this month you are you most excited about? List them, and give details about what they are, and why you are looking forward to these things!