Week Eight Tasks

This week there are 3 tasks to choose from to share or learn more about the world.

Our graphic summarises the tasks and I will explain each task in more detail below.

As this is a new STUBC topic, I don’t have examples to share this week. Maybe I’ll be able to use your post as an example in a future challenge!

Task 1: Tells Us About Your Country

We’d love to learn more about where you live!

This task involves researching and sharing some interesting information about your country.

You might include information like:

• Size
• Population
• Location
• Landmarks
• Capital city/Major cities
• Flag
• President/Prime Minister
• History
• Language
• Religion
• Climate
• Plants and Animals

Ideas for presenting the information in your post:

• A Google Slides presentation (please make sure it’s public)
• A quiz
• Text and images
• A video
• A comic (try a tool like Make Beliefs Comix, ToonDoo, or Canva)

You might also be able to use some of the fabulous Google tools for this topic like Google Earth and Google Maps.

• Eleni Kyritsis shows us how to create a virtual tour with Google Tour Creator.
• Matt Miller explains how to make a Google Map walking tour with Screencastify.

Task 2: Learn About Another Country

This task is the same as task 1 except instead of telling us about your own country you will research and share information about another country.

Be sure to tell us why you chose the country. Why does it interest you?

Task 3: Travel

Have you been lucky enough to travel to another country or city? Or perhaps you have dreams to travel somewhere?

Our commenting team leader Miss W recently travelled to South Australia and took some great photos which she’d like to share with you. Click here to visit Miss W’s website.

This task involves writing a post about travel.

Ideas for your travel post:

• Write about a holiday you went on that you really enjoyed.
• Make a list of the top 10 travel destinations you’d like to go to.
• Create a slideshow of your ideal holiday destinations.
• Create an imaginary itinerary if you could travel anywhere and had an unlimited budget.

You might have your own ideas!

💡 Safety Tip

It’s fun to talk about travel, but it’s a good idea to avoid mentioning your specific travel plans online.

For example, instead of saying, “I’m going to visit Sydney next Monday” try “I’m planning a holiday to Sydney” or “I’m looking forward to visiting Sydney later in the year”.

Also, remember not to post pictures of yourself or others on the blog without permission.

Visit Others

Don’t forget to try to visit a couple of other bloggers once you’ve published your own post. You might learn a lot about where they live this week!

Submit Your Post URL ⬇

If you’d like a commenter and others to visit your post, fill in the form below.

This video shows you how to find your URL…

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

This graphic below should help you understand what a post URL looks like if you’re using Edublogs/CampusPress/WordPress

The Google Form

Edit: Enter your details in the Google Form below or click here to open it in a new tab.

Teachers, feel free to put the Form URL on your class blog if it’s easier for your students to access.

https://forms.gle/bRKcAfUYEqkYeifz5

Next week’s topic: Putting It All Together!

Remember, the Student Blogging Challenge runs for 10 weeks so we have 2 more weeks to go!