The Student Blogging Challenge started this week and we’re all set to dive right in. Created and facilitated by Miss Wyatt, a teacher from Tasmania, this 10 week adventure is a great way to build blogging skills and make connections with students around the world. There are two challenges each year, one in September and [...]

The Student Blogging Challenge is just around the corner! Time to register our class and student blogs and get ready to meet new bloggers around the world. Now that we have spent a number of months becoming acquainted with the process, we are all set to branch out and build new connections. Ripplers, please visit [...]

The Ripplers are ready to begin the next phase of their blogging adventure. But here’s the question … Is the blogging world ready for us? Well we’re up for the challenge, whatever that may bring. You’ll notice that most of our new student bloggers have now been added to the blogroll. There are still a few more to [...]

It’s already starting to be a glorious week for the Ripplers! Within the next few days you will begin to see our newest student blogs emerging. Division 2 has been busy learning how to be Internet savvy and how to write quality comments because we all know that commenting is the backbone of blogging. Without [...]

The Student Blogging Challenge is here again! We’re a little late getting through the first couple of challenges, but please bear with us because we’ll be catching up really soon. It’s always a bit tough for us to get going with our blogging so quickly at the beginning of the year because we don’t start [...]

When the Ripplers first entered the world of blogging last September, our first priority was to learn how to comment and how to navigate successfully throughout the blogosphere. After spending some time getting used to commenting on our new class blog, we ventured out to visit other class blogs that had registered alongside us in [...]

To complete the first challenge in the class blog section of the 2010 Blogging Challenge, we need to fill our new and returning readers in on why it would beneficial to visit our blog often. So what’s so special about our blog? Students in our class, we call them Ripplers, have been thinking about exactly [...]

Challenge 5, this week, has been a great reminder of why we credit the images we use on our class and individual blogs and how much we benefit from people licensing their creative work through Creative Commons. Miss Wyatt provided a link to a great video that reinforced what we’ve been learning about this throughout [...]

The Week 4 Challenge is all about the environment. March is filled with days set aside to reflect on Earth’s great resources and how we are using them. In April, we come across Earth Day as well. This week, Miss Wyatt is inviting each of you to create a post about one of these special [...]

Completing Challenge 3 will be somewhat like providing your readers with a window into the Comox Valley. It’s all about showcasing where you live so others can “see” what the most interesting and fascinating features of your community are. We live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth! So this should be a snap, right? [...]