March
9
My Avatar Week1 STUBC
Well I wanted my Avatar to somewhat resemble me but at the same time to be exotic. So I thought I should definitely have glasses so that it would have a little not-me humor. But it did have to be me so I had have blue on because I like always have blue on. But I did have it have blond hair like I do so that it would look somewhat like me. I thought that I should use the same thing I used last student blog challenge. So I had to look for it for like 5 minutes but when I did find it the cover had complete changed. So I had to make sure but is was. Here is my blog avatar!
Hi there Luke,
Great avatar. My name is Merry Beau and I am your student blogging challenge mentor. I will be popping in to visit your blog over the course of the challenge and seeing how you are getting on.
I teach children between the ages of 4 and 12 and I am from Ireland. I have two grown up children: one is a midwife and the other hopes to join the Irish army shortly. My hobbies are blogging and gardening. I would on our school website and three school blogs; my own class blog, a Green Schools blog and a history one. Here is a link to our class blog http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/category/student-favourite/
I also love walking our dog. She is a seven year old Japanese Akita and is a very loyal and protective member of our family.
My class and I have done the student blogging challenge in the past.I see you have too. So you will know that if you ‘keep with it’ you will learn a lot. As Ms.W says you can choose from the suggested activities to do what really interests you. That way blogging is such fun. I was DELIGHTED to see your All About Me page and also you Student Blogging Challenge badge. That way when I visit your blog I am sure you are taking part.
It would be lovely to hear back from you. Otherwise I feel like I am talking to myself. Part of the fun of blogging is getting to hear from people all over the world. As Miss W. says if you finish your tasks why not visit other student bloggers and leave a comment to say hello.
With every good wish
Well you were right I have done the blog challenge. This is my second time doing it. I do wish that I got school off on St. Patrick’s day. But sadly we kids in America do not get school off. I am in a club I play soccer for my school Garden Spot.
Great Avatar! I love the choice you made with the glasses. I can see you put a lot of thought into this avatar since every detail of him seems to have a meaning. I too am white with blonde hair and don’t have glasses so we could look a little similar. If there is any reason in particular, why did you choose glasses as your way to look exotic?
Ya I like the glasses to the remind me of Harry Potter’s. Who is the BEST. Well if we look alike then we have a something in comment I will leave you a comment on your blog so get ready to read. Happy Blogging! ??
Hello Again from Ireland.
Wishing you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day for Friday 17th March. We here in Ireland have no school on that day and many of the children will be marching in the St.Patrick’s Day parade. Many of them will be marching with a sports club or youth group that they belong to.
Do you belong to any sports or hobby group? When I was your age I belonged to a swimming club and a choir. The children I teach belong to lots of clubs. They seem to do at least as many after school activities as there are working days in the week: activities like theatre group, yoga, rugby, basketball, science club and art. Some children are so busy they have more than one after school activity in a day.
Spring has arrived here in Ireland. We have had a very mild winter, but see on the TV news that Pennsylvania has had some snow recently. I hope it did not cause too much disruption. However, even though the weather is Spring like this week, the weather forecast for St.Patrick’s Day is for light rain and wind.
I am really hoping for a reply or a comment from you. It would be fun to get a conversation started.
So long for now, with every good wish, Merry Beau
Hi Luke, Thanks for replying. Just checking in on all the students that I am mentoring to check that the challenge is going well for people. I can see that you are participating; that you have your challenge badge up, and are doing a number of the suggested challenges. Are you visiting other blogs? Be sure to reply to comments that people leave. That is all the advice I have for you for the moment.
Keep up the good work, Merry Beau
Hey Luke!
I’m Jordan Online from Montreal. Here is my blog URL:https://jordanonlineo.edublogs.org/. Anyways, Great avatar! I like that you made it like a classic human being meaning that there are not too much details. I did an avatar that had a soccer ball in his hands and a super weird shirt. I deleted it after because he looked super crazy! I like that you added glasses too because it is very original for a person that doesn’t have glasses. That’s all I wanted to say.
Have an amazing day!
Jordan Online
Hello again,
I hope all is good with you.
Ms.Wyatt has put up a really interesting set of challenges this week on family, culture and your home country. I really look forward to seeing which challenge or challenges you choose and what you write.
You can see what she is suggesting here:
http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/09/week-5-culture-and-family/
You are all doing SO well in Mr.Geiman’s class on the Student Blogging Challenge, that I suggest that you aim to do your VERY best work and if you are REALLY proud of it, that you draw Ms.Wyatt’s attention to it by posting a link to it on this page. She may feature it on the Flipboard magazine or give your work a mention in a post later on in the challenge.
If I see any TRULY wonderful work on your blogs between now and the end of the challenge I plan to pass the link on to Ms.Wyatt also.
NOW. THIS IS IMPORTANT… If you are sending a link to the post you feel you have done really well DON’T sent her a link to your whole blog. For example this is a link to our class blog. http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/
Instead send Ms.Wyatt a link to the actual post. For example this is a link to a special post on our class blog that we wrote for the students in Mr. Geiman’s class http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/2017/04/09/a-special-post-for-mr-geimans-class-in-pennsylvania-usa/
This is because there are over two thousand students doing the student blogging challenge and if Ms.Wyatt is directed to a blog it would take time for her to find the actual post that you would like her to see.
With every good wish and wishing you a Happy Easter,
Merry Beau
Hi Luke, Thank you for the comment on our blog.
To answer the question you asked me…
What you do is to put a link to your exact post (and not your blog)
with a short comment in the comment box at the bottom of Ms.Wyatt’s most recent post (and not her blog ;)). The link to that post is
https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/09/week-5-culture-and-family/
Hope this helps,
With every good wish
Merry Beau
Hello again,
Just to say I sent the following note to Ms.Wyatt,
‘Great news. I am having such a great time mentoring the hardworking bloggers that you assigned me from Mr. Geiman’s class.
There is every sign between badges, About Me pages, posts and the use of the hashtag #stubc17 that they are all on board with the Student Blogging Challenge.’
I have been a mentor for a number of years now and you are far and above the best group I have ever mentored. Congrations and well done to you and your teacher.
This week Ms. Wyatt says you should prepared for a game that will be coming up as part of the Student Challenge in a couple of weeks. In order to be prepared she you like you to have at least 5 other student blogs linked on the sidebar of your blog, in a page near your header area or in a recent post that your visitors can find easily. Make sure these are blogs from other students around the world, not just those in your class or school. Perhaps have a blogroll or link category called Global students or Global classes. You can read how to do that on this link: http://help.edublogs.org/blogroll/
Ms. Wyatt also says ‘Having read many of your posts, I came up with the following essentials in a great post.
• catchy title
• includes at least one visual (with attribution) whether photo, cartoon, video or another web 2.0 tool like padlet or glogster
• interesting topic with the passion of the author coming through
• well written and not copy/pasted from somewhere else
• shows it has been proofread and spellchecked
• written in paragraphs – at least three of them
• includes links to other websites on similar topics – at least two of these’
I would agree with Ms.Wyatt and in particular I would say that visuals are important. So is checking one’s spellings. Sometimes, I have seen lovely posters made that were very visual, but a spelling mistake on the poster took away from the overall effect.
Ms. Wyatt asks that ‘When you have finished your post, please come back here to the blogging challenge and leave a comment on this post’.
Here is the link to the post she is talking about: http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/23/week-6-what-to-write-about/
She asks that you ‘mention what topic you wrote about and leave a link to your post’….not a link to your blog but to the post.
She says that if your posts covering the seven things mentioned above e.g. has a catchy title, includes at least one visual etc. etc., it will be added to the flipboard magazine.
Here is a link to all Ms. Wyatt said this week, https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/23/week-6-what-to-write-about/
Have a good week and good luck with your blogging. Keep up the good work. I have every confidence in you.
With every good wish
Merry Beau