Week 3 - Earth Day blogging challenge

Have you heard of Earth Day? Every year it is celebrated on the 22nd of April, all around the world. This year, Earth Day celebrated it's 50th year of celebration!

This week, you are going to choose an environmental topic that's interesting and important to you, and use your blog to let everyone know about protecting and restoring our planet.

Pick a topic related to the environment (some ideas below!), and explain to people why you think it is important. Research some interesting facts about your issue and include some actions that people can take to try and minimise the problem. Think about us in Oamaru, and New Zealand specifically - what can we do? Include photos if you want to.

Then, submit your URL to this link here. Browse other student blogs and leave them feedback.

Blogging Challenge (week 4) Our Term 2, Week 1

The Student Blogging Challenge team have decided this week is a catch up or free blog choice week! You can either look back on the past three weeks of blogging and complete a task you either started and didn't finish, or didn't even start, or you can publish a blog post on anything you like!
Click here for a link with 50 cool blogging prompt ideas if you're stuck for your free choice idea.
Once you have written your post, as always, click here to submit the URL of your post here to this link.
Then visit at least one other blog and leave a comment!
Find the list of the blogs here.

Staff dance

Have you seen what the teachers have been up to?
I got them all to send me some clips of them dancing and put it together in to this video. Check it out.

Writing Competition

Thanks to Olivia who has found this great story writing site. She entered and even got a mention from the creator for having a 'cool twist' in her story.
They have a new competition open now - it finishes on April 18th. They provide you with a story starter and you need to complete it (up to 500 words more).
Check it out, submit your writing and you never know, you could win a book!

Fabo Story Competition

Blogging Challenge - Week 1, Term 2

Welcome back Room 17! This week, we are going to continue with the online learning we began in the first few days of lockdown. Lucky for us the blogging challenge is still going so we will continue to participate in this.

This weeks theme is is "Fun with Images." Hopefully you are aware about how you can't just copy work from Google - this is called plagiarism. It is the same with images and pictures - unless you've taken them or made them, you can't just use them and pretend they're yours! Here are some tips on how to safely use images on your blogs:

There are three tasks to choose from, all in the picture below. Select one of them, and then post it on your blog. Submit the URL of that blog post here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3P_-FYfxL0llSiMEDhQ6fGdlkVoWZ8M_zO_W3YQo-dhsOUA/viewform - so that you can receive comments!

Then, go leave some comments on other people's blogs - https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/mar-2020-students/. Any questions, email me!