THS Lit 10

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
This week, the 2009 Student Blogging Challenge asks students to write about their own responsibility and future in terms of social networking and digital communications.  As always, your post should be a minimum of 10 sentences, and the instructions for this week’s post are outlined here.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Blog entries are optional, extra credit, actually this week.  Details about this week’s topic, holidays and vacations, can be found at the 2009 Student Blogging Challenge site.  Check it out for details.

Friday, October 16th, 2009
An overview of this week’s challenge with multiple links to help you understand and think about this week’s issue, climate change, are available on the challenge blog. Make sure you read the directions, or you might end up totally confused about what you need to do this week!

This week you have an opportunity to choose what type of response you’ll make, be creative and please, think outside the box. When you’ve finished, make sure you link back to the BAD (Blog Action Day) site.

Thursday, October 7th, 2009
Directions for this week’s blogs copied from the Student Blogging Challenge Blog:

1. Write a post about one of your favourite interests. In this post include at least two links to great websites or blogs that are also about that topic.
2. Visit one of the following image sites (flickr – photobucket - picasa – photosnack) and choose a great image. Write a post about that image and remember to include the attribution. This means you have told readers where you got the image from. Look at the URL for the image – this does not mean Google search images, but the original site where the image was put on the web.
3. Choose five images which, put together, tell a story without any writing from you. Remember to choose a great title for this post. Remember also to give attribution for the images.

Thursday, October 1st, 2009
By now, you’ve written a post and a page on your blog, visited at least five blogs of international blogging participants, and, hopefully, you’ve had a few visitors indicated by the maps and other widgets on your blogs. This week, we’ll continue to develop our blogs, visit the blogs of other students from around the world, and write in response to the challenge prompt. Details below:

1. Add a blogroll with links to ten blogs (perhaps students in this class or in other countries who you’ve connected with through the challenge) that you feel are important and worth visiting, more details and directions available at the Student Blogging Challenge.
2. Visit blogs from at least five different countries not including your own. Leave a useful comment on each blog. This might include asking a question about the area the blogger lives in.
3. Now write a post about what you learned about the five bloggers you visited. What did you find interesting about their blog? Is there someone in your class you would recommend read that blog as well? Make sure you include links to their blogs so someone reading your post can visit their blog, too.

Friday, September 25th, 2009
We’re a little behind on the student blogging challenge (we started a week later than most), but we’ll catch up in the next few weeks.  This week’s challenge is…

1. Check the challenge page for details about the post (at least 10 sentences in length, please) that you need to write this week.  See what others have already written about this post here.
2. Visit at least 5 other blogs that are new to you and leave a comment on an interesting post. Hopefully, the more comments you leave with your new avatar, the more visits and comments you will receive on your own blog, connecting with other students from around the world. So, go out there, read blogs, and meet someone new.  Keep a record of what you said in a word document or discuss the comments you left  in a post on your own blog.  Check out this page to find a list of blogging challenge participants.
3. Now that you have a clustrmap, add another widget to let people (and yourself!) know where people who visit your site are coming from.  Try Feedjit or Flag Counter to get yours.

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Student Blogging Challenge 2009 – Prepare your blog for the 1009 challenge and make some time to visit the blogs of students from around the world who are participating in this year’s challenge. Check the 2009 Blogging Challenge and make sure you accomplish each of the steps listed below:

1. Introduce yourself – create an About Me page, rather than your typical post, and share some information (remember, no last names and no pictures) about yourself, where you live, your interests, etc. Many students previously enrolled in Lit 10 have written about themselves, feel free to check their blogs for ideas.

2. Create an avatar - A picture or image that represents you, but is not actually a picture of you. I chose a butterfly as my avatar, and this shows up whenever I leave a comment on posts. More details, including some great places to find avatars can be found by following the link.

… and, most importantly…

3. Find out who’s visiting – Add a clustermap, counter, and/or feedjit map to your blog to keep track of who visits your blog and where they’re coming from, just like I do on the class blog.