Panther Pride

(crossposted to our junior classes’ blog) Perhaps you can tell from our title (or perhaps it’s just appeared as those boxes that occur when we use emojis) … this week’s challenge is about emojis. It’s the first time the Student Blogging Challenge has used emojis for one of the topics, and I’ll admit I 🙄 … Continue reading 🏫✍ … 😃😉😜? 👏👏👏 (Blogging Challenge: Week Four)

(crossposted to our junior classes’ blog) Part of the advantage of blogging in relation to other forms of writing is the ability to use images to support our message and make our content more visual. People understand us better when we use pictures and other media, because then they’re getting the information in a variety … Continue reading Ethical Imaging (Blogging Challenge: Week Three)

(adapted and crossposted to our junior classes’ blog) The reason we post about our learning and share our writing on blogs (or online in general) is to connect with an audience. In school, most writing doesn’t go beyond the classroom, and it’s not meant to be read by anyone besides the teacher. This isn’t real … Continue reading Virtual Conversations (Blogging Challenge: Week Two)

For the first Student Blogging Challenge, those of us without avatars (images to represent ourselves online) created and uploaded them to our blogs. Below, you can see our virtual learning community through our comments – and we’ll explain why we chose our avatars as well! Welcome to Panther Pride (#ltswrites)!

(Crossposted to my junior classes’ blog.) Each week, for the Student Blogging Challenge, there are four steps: You’ll be able to read the week’s blog post at this website and follow the instructions for the week. I’ll also post a link to the current task here on our class blog, along with any clarifications I … Continue reading Who am I? (Blogging Challenge: Week One)