Week Four Tasks

This week’s tasks are simple but I’ve offered a little elaboration below the summary graphic.

Week four of the Student Blogging Challenge allows you to catch up or write a free choice post.

Task 1: Catch Up

You might not have had the chance to complete a task for week 1-3. Or you might like to complete an additional task from the choices on offer. Go for it.

Here are the links (you’ll also find them on the sidebar of the challenge blog).

Note about Google Forms:

The Google Form for week one tasks is closed.
If you’re catching up on a week one task, you can add it to the Google Form at the bottom of this week four post.
If you complete a week two or three task, please go to the correct Google Form as these are still open.

Task 2: Free Choice

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What’s something that interests you? Write about it!

Stuck for ideas?

Check out these 100 blogging prompts for students.
Here are 50 more blogging prompts for students.
Saturday 30th March is Earth Hour. Read about this important event and write a post about it.
This week’s post on The Edublogger has 15 ideas for fun poetry activity.
One of our great commenters, Sheri Edwards, created a tutorial showing how to make a character out of Google Drawings. Why not make a character and blog about it?
Sheri has another great post about Sharing Hobbies as well. It might give you even more ideas about sharing and connecting.

If you write a free choice post this week, submit it in the Google Form at the bottom of this post.

Task 3: Visit

You might have a bit of extra time this week so it could be a good opportunity to visit at least one other blog and leave a quality comment.

Remember to ask a question and check back to see if they replied to you (most platforms have a box to tick so you can get an email when there is a follow-up comment).

>> Click here to take a look at the posts our participants are writing for week 4.

Task 4: Kahoot!

Have you ever played Kahoot? Get some friends together and test your blogging knowledge with our 15 question quiz!

How Kahoot! works:

The multiple-choice questions appear on the screen in the classroom and students submit their responses in real time using their computer, tablet, or mobile device.
Students can work in teams and can work for points (most correct answers and quickest responses).

Our Introduction To Blogging Kahoot goes over some of the key terms, vocabulary, and uses of blogs.

How To Play Our Blogging Kahoot!

To access the Kahoot, click on this link.
You don’t need an account to play, however; you will need to log in if you want to edit the quiz (teachers can adapt it for your own students if necessary).
You also need to be signed in to save results.
You’ll have the option for your students to play against each other individually (classic mode) or in teams.

Play as classic or team mode Kahoot

You’ll also have a variety of game options you can play around with (see below).

Once you finalize your selections, a game pin number will show up. Students will go to the Kahoot app on their device, or to https://kahoot.it/ and enter the pin number to begin!

Game options for kahoot

Feel free to leave a comment on this post and tell us if you tried the Kahoot!

Submit Your Post URL

If you write a free choice post and would like a commenter and others to visit, fill in the form below.

Do you have a post on your class blog and student blogs? Awesome! Feel free to submit the class blog post and student blog posts.

You need to submit the URL of your post. You can submit the URL of a page if this is what you’re working on but make sure comments are enabled.

This video shows you how to find your URL…

Note, this isn’t a real class blog. Just one I used for testing

Remember:

Click on the title of your post/page and then copy the URL from your address bar.
This graphic below should help you understand what a post URL looks like if you’re using Edublogs/CampusPress/WordPress