(crossposted to our junior classes’ blog) In Western cultures, we often refer to the winter season as the festive season. For many, it starts with Thanksgiving, and ends with New Year’s Day or the lunar new year (also called the Chinese New Year). Different cultures celebrate different holidays throughout the darker months of the year … Continue reading Celebrations, Traditions and Festivities (Blogging Challenge Week 8)
Category: Student Blogging Challenge
Choice or Catch-up (Blogging Challenge Week 7)
We’ve been focusing on challenges for the past six weeks, but blogging (true blogging) is rarely about responding to challenge posts. Once we’re finished this ten-week Student Blogging Challenge, you’re still going to be posting every week, but you’re going to be choosing your topics (much like you do with Writers’ Workshop and Daily Writing). … Continue reading Choice or Catch-up (Blogging Challenge Week 7)
Scientific Discipline(s) (Blogging Challenge Week 6)
(crossposted to our junior classes’ blog) Although much of what we’ve been doing in the Student Blogging Challenge (and, for that matter, outside of it) has been related to some form of reading and writing, blogging doesn’t have to be limited to those areas. The thing that I enjoy about blogging the most is that … Continue reading Scientific Discipline(s) (Blogging Challenge Week 6)
Similarities, Differences, Conflict and Remembrance Day (Blogging Challenge: Week Five)
In the last few years months, the news has featured stories on the divisiveness of humanity. In recent days, I’ve heard about the alt-right “It’s okay to be white” posters posted during Halloween, the cultural appropriation inherent in the border wall costumes of a group of Idaho teachers and US President Trump’s consideration of narrowly … Continue reading Similarities, Differences, Conflict and Remembrance Day (Blogging Challenge: Week Five)
🏫✍ … 😃😉😜? 👏👏👏 (Blogging Challenge: Week Four)
(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)
Ethical Imaging (Blogging Challenge: Week Three)
(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)
Virtual Conversations (Blogging Challenge: Week Two)
(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)
Our (Avatar) Learning Community
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)!
Who am I? (Blogging Challenge: Week One)
(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)