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WEEK ONE: Click Here
About Me
Activity 1: Write or update your About Me page.
Activity 2: Post at least two of your writing assignments. Be sure you posted them as “Posts” and not “Pages.”
Activity 3: Update your tagline (site identity) and header and background images.
Activity 4: Create an avatar. Portrait Illustrator
Activity 5: Write a post about your avatar.
Activity 6: Create a series of avatars. (May be combined with activity three)
Activity 7: Read Ms. W’s follow-up from week 1. Click here
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WEEK TWO: Click Here
Commenting
Activity 1: Create a ‘How to Comment’ page on your blog
Activity 2: Make a set of commenting guidelines (check out Mrs. Yollis’s blog post for some ideas)
Activity 3: Give Miss W (the creator of this challenge) some feedback. Leave a comment on this post
Activity 4: Use some HTML in a comment
Activity 5: Visit other student or class blogs (Make sure you include your blog URL so they can come to visit your blog.) Click here for a list of participants
Activity 6: Fill out the form to have a commenter visit your blog. (Be sure you paste the URL of an actual blog post and not the URL of your blog homepage.
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WEEK THREE: Click Here
Images, Videos, and Music
Activity 1: Do some more research on the topic of attribution and licenses and perhaps create your own Powtoon, Google Slide presentation, or written post about using images, music and videos in class.
Activity 2: Take a photo or find an image or piece of music. Add it to your post (with attribution) and write a poem relating to the image or music. Invite your readers to write their own poems.
Activity 3: Similar to activity 2. Take a photo or find an interesting landscape image (include attribution). Write the beginning of a story relating to your image or video. Remember to include a conflict of some sort between your characters. Invite your readers to finish the story. How many different endings can you get? Which ending do you prefer? You might need to visit some other bloggers and invite them to finish your story. Remember to leave the URL of your post for them to click on.
Activity 4: Create your own images and add to a post of your choice. In your post add a link to the website or tool you used to create your image.
Other options for creating your own images include:
Mixing up your images using these types of tools can really spice up your posts! Leave a comment on this post, if you or your class can recommend some other image sites to add to this list.