March
22
Week Two Blog Challenge HOW TO MAKE THE BEST COMMENT ON EARTH!!
How To Make The Best Comment In The World!!
Hey, you wanna know how to make the best comment in the world, well listen up.
- You gotta know what Stars, Wishes, and Wonders stand for!
- You need to be able to measure the quality of the author’s work.
- You have to tell them the truth even if they are your best friend!
- Make quality comments to everyone and measure everyone equally.
Stars stands for, giving a complement to the author about the story, for example. You can say I like how you added more info than needed to the story so it is longer and more interesting. Wishes Is you wish they did this or you wish that they would add more excitement or something like that. Wonders stands for when you wonder why they added a extra space in their title or something like that. It can also be something that happened in the story like I wonder how did the bear survived the tornado.
Hello Emmanuel,
I really enjoyed reading this wonderful post. This will really help me write wonderful comments now.
Check out my blog Marcus Online
https://marcusonlinen.edublogs.org/
Hello Emmanuel,
I am a blogging mentor in the Edublogs Blogging Challenge. You aren’t in my list of bloggers this year, but last year you posted on our class blog saying you enjoyed one of the poems. We have put up a collection that I thought you might like.
http://tinam.global2.vic.edu.au/
It was amazing looking at what you are doing with your blog now. You are an expert for sure! I appreciated your advice about commenting and the bold heading you used. The idea of ‘stars, wishes and wonders,’ is really helpful. I will show your post to my class!
Happy Blogging
Ms Mayling
Hi Emmanuel,
My name is Merry Beau and I am your student blogging challenge mentor. I can’t find the comments I left on your blog since the 11th March.
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. As you know from doing the challenge in 2016 I think you will find 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. Ms. W says by Easter or mid April we would like to see an ‘About Me’ page or post as well as two other posts in relation to the challenges. I will be really interested in reading the ‘About Me’ part. It may be on your page but I cannot see it. I will also find it very helpful if you put up the Student Blogging Challenge badge for 2017. That way when I visit your blog I am sure you are taking part. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/03/07/2017-student-blogging-challenge-badges-are-here/
I see that you were very busy in the Blogging Challenge for 2016. I also see that you are very busy with other school assignments on your blog. However putting up the badge, adding an About Me page and perhaps using the hashtag #stubc17 would let me see that you are on board with the Student Blogging Challenge for 2017.
With every good wish
Merry Beau
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.
Last time I commented I said ‘I will also find it very helpful if you put up the Student Blogging Challenge badge for 2017. That way when I visit your blog I am sure you are taking part. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/03/07/2017-student-blogging-challenge-badges-are-here/
I see that you were very busy in the Blogging Challenge for 2016. I also see that you are very busy with other school assignments on your blog. However putting up the badge, adding an About Me page and perhaps using the hashtag #stubc17 would let me see that you are on board with the Student Blogging Challenge for 2017.’ I understand that other things may be going on in your life, but I will just say it again this time … just in case you have the chance to do this.
With every good wish and wishing you a Happy Easter,
Merry Beau
Thanks for the awesome advice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for replying Emmanuel.
With every good wish
Merry Beau
your welcome!
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