Edublog Awards shortlist!

Well three of St Wolstan's TY blogs were shortlisted for the Edublog Awards this year. Eilís was shortlisted for the Best Student blog, Rebecca was shortlisted for Best New blog and Radio TY was shortlisted for Best Podcast blog.

Here are the links to the places to vote for them.

See full list on Listly

See full list on Listly

See full list on Listly

There are other Irish schools shortlisted as well:

See full list on Listly

See full list on Listly

And of course many irish teachers too. Good luck to everyone.

Edublog Awards 2013

We think we will participate in the Edublog Awards again this year. How this works is that we have to write a post with our nominations, link to the nominations and then link to the Edublog Awards website. We then send a link to this post here to the Edublog folks and that's it!

So here goes:

We would like to nominate Radio TY for the Best educational use of podcasts and for Best group blog because the St Wolstan's TY Media Team manage the blog. Here is their Audioboo


We'd also like to nominate the following blogs for:

Best new blog because they have all just been blogging since September 2013, Lauren's Transition Year , Jessica's Transitioning in 3...2...1!
Rebecca's TY experience,
and Eilís' TY Blog

Best student blog award because they are all students,  Lauren's Transition Year , Jessica's Transitioning in 3...2...1!
Rebecca's TY experience,
and Eilís' TY Blog


Best individual blog because they all keep their own blog -  Lauren's Transition Year , Jessica's Transitioning in 3...2...1!
Rebecca's TY experience,
and Eilís' TY Blog


#edchatie as the Best twitter hashtag.

Ideas to blog about

I came across this Photo Prompts site today on Tumblr by John T Spencer and thought it would act as a good prompt for TY's who have writers block!

Lets see what they can do with this photo?

Over to you TY's!

Photo Credit:  Anthony Quintano

Source

Leave your suggestions for the first line of the story as a comment below, or leave a link to your story.

Awards!

TY has been celebrating this week as we have received not just one but 2 awards for our St Wolstan's TY Blog!

The Junior Spiders!!

So this morning Sarah K, Leah and Sarah D headed off with Mrs.L to DCU Helix for the Eircom Junior Spider Awards.Wish us good luck!!Here's a picture from this morning.

SarahD

Blogs of the week

SarahD is doing great work on her blog as is SarahK and SarahM.

Sarah D

SarahM

SarahK

They all deserve more people to read their blogs. Why not pop over and have a read of all their goings on?

Mrs L :)

Positively Pulaski want to chat

Mrs Forsberg contacted Mrs Leahy recently because they had something in common - their students like to blog!! Mrs Forsberg students are a little bit younger than TY students but they have something in common with TY - they like to blog and everyone loves to see a comment on their own blog. Right?

So Mrs L would like TYs to head over to Mrs Forsbergs 6th Grade blogs at Positive House in Pulaski Community Schools and read their blogs and leave a comment.

Imagine, taking your TY experience even further out of the classroom - all the way to Wisconsin, America!!

http://kidblog.org/PositivelyPulaski/

Here are a  few tips from Mrs Forsberg.

Before you blog...

*Remember that blogging is a formal type of writing; it's expected that you use standard English and proper punctuation.  (You are representing your class, your school, and your country. :)

*Commenting Etiquette--

• Make sincere comments (Make a connection to the writing.) "Nice blog" is not a sincere comment.
• When someone comments on one of your posts, it's polite to visit their's back.
• It's polite to thank readers for visiting your blog and taking the time to leave a comment. 
• If someone asks a question in a blog comment, answer it.  If you've asked a question on another blog, check back--You just might get an answer! 
• When you leave a comment on a post and have the option to leave a link, share the one to your blog.

Mrs L :)

We took part

I am delighted to see so many TY's actually remembered to write a blog post last Sunday for Blog Action Day.

Here is a list of their posts. Perhaps readers will leave comments for them?

Eiru

Elaina http://eleanastyblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day-east-african-famine.html

Eimear http://eimearelephants.blogspot.com/2011/10/food-food-glourious-food.html

Martha http://marthabradyty.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-dayfoodnom.html

Laragh http://laraghty.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day.html

Catriona http://tienies.blogspot.com/2011/10/bia-oh-mamma-mia.html

Sarah M http://sarahlovesirishdancing.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day-on-food-home-baking.html

 

Niamh Mc http://sniamh.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-love-you-food.html

Isabelle  http://isabellety.blogspot.com/2011/10/dinner-time-for-some.html

Kasia http://kasia-ty.blogspot.com/2011/10/vitamins-vitamins-vitamnis.html

Alswyn http://alswyn.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day-2011-food.html

Elizabeth http://elizabethty.blogspot.com/2011/10/food.html

Laura W http://whelanlaura.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day-food-glorious-food.html

Grace http://gracexx.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day.html

Aoife O http://aoifeoneillty.blogspot.com/2011/10/do-we-all-take-food-for-granted.html

Banba

Claire http://clairety95.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day-fooood.html

Sally http://sidekick-sally.blogspot.com/2011/10/eat-until-you-cant-see-your-feet.html

Ellen http://perryyy.blogspot.com/2011/10/food-is-cool-oh-yeah.html

Fodla

Sive http://sivefitz.blogspot.com/2011/10/food-glorious-food.html

Niamh http://niamh23.blogspot.com/2011/10/gone-off-food.html

Aoibhaeann http://aoibheann-apples.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day.html

Sarah http://sarahlikessmarties.blogspot.com/2011/10/getting-lucozade-shakes-and-scrambled.html

Louise http://louisetransitionyear-louise.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-dayfood.html

 

Lisa http://lisalikeslettuce.blogspot.com/2011/10/extremely-hot-sauce.html

Sarah B http://sarah-sausages.blogspot.com/2011/10/whats-obsession.html

 

Elaina http://elaina-ty.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day.html

 

Aoife http://aoifelikesapples.blogspot.com/2011/10/nom-nom-blog-action-day.html

Laura http://laurasmyth1996.blogspot.com/2011/10/mcdonalds-mcdonalds-kentucky-fried.html

 

Aisling http://aislinglovesaustria.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-action-day-food.html

Blog Action Day 2011

Last year TY took part in Blog Action Day in October and the theme was WATER. All we had to do was register and join bloggers all over the world by writing a post about water.

This year's Blog Action Day 2011 coincides with World Food Day, so BAD's topic this year will be FOOD.

Food is something that we all share in common, but is distinct to each of our cultures. The way we produce, distribute and consume food is crucial to our shared future, and the unhealthy imbalance of food scarcity in developing world and food over-abundance in the developed world is unsustainable for us all.

Blog Action Day 2011 will be an opportunity to open the conversation about how food impacts all of us – individually and globally.

The big event is only a few days away. I am hoping that TY will take part again.

To kick things off register for Blog Action Day 2011 by clicking the link below:

http://blogactionday.org/register-for-blog-action-day/

Mrs L :)

Suggested Topics for Blog Action Day

• My favorite food
• The famine in East African
• To be organic or not to be:
• Best and worst food memory
• Slow Food, Fast Food: What does it actually mean
• Malnutrition
• Conflict over Food:
• Is your hamburger hurting the enviroment?
  It takes 24 liters of water to produce one hamburger. That means it would take over 19.9 billion liters of water to make just one hamburger for every person in Europe.
• Vegan, Vegetarian, Meat eater – Which one are you?
• Will we be able to feed 9 billion people in 2050?
• Freeganism
• The scandal of Food Waste.
• What is the best way to farm food.
• Growing your own – the joys and heartache of growing what you eat.
• Too much or too little taking food to extremes
• Strangest thing you have ever eaten.
• What food means to your culture.

Can you think of any more?

Commenting on blogs

I thought I would post these posters so TY will post good comments during our Quadblogging project. First poster is from classes 2KM and 2KJ @ Leopold Primary School

and the next poster is from Mrs Edwards classes at Geeky GrammaMiddle School 

So a good comment is always polite, starts with a greeting, starts or contributes to a conversation, and ends with a question which could keep the connection / conversation going.
Mrs L :)

Quadblogging

West Jefferson High School is one of our partners in the Quadblogging project this term. Their teacher is Ms Burton, an English/Language Arts teacher from New Orleans, and her students are in 9th grade. They are new to blogging, just like us in St Wolstans!

Here are the addresses os their blog and wiki:
Class Blog : http://msvrburton.edublogs.org/
Class Wiki : http://msburtonisonline.pbworks.com/

Why not check them out? Mrs L :)

Quadblogging

We will be taking part in a Quadblogging project this term. I am looking forward to TY making global connections through their blogs. Here is a video to explain it.





We will be in a quad with 3 other schools

- Thurstable School in the UK with Mr Kilvert  http://mrkilvert.wordpress.com/

- Oak Hill Academy in the USA with Ms Ritter-Guth (no blog address yet)

- West Jefferson High School with Mrs Burton http://msvrburton.edublogs.org/


I am still waiting for our Quad Coordinator to contact me but I am very excited about it all. I hope the TY's are as well!

Mrs L :)

Ideas for blog posts

This week TY's created their own blogs and have agreed to post at least one blog post a week. I know after a time some will eventually think they have nothing to blog about so I am posting a link to 52 types of blg posts to give them ideas. Not all of the ideas will be relevant to them but surely they will get some ideas :)

52 Types of Blog Posts


Mrs L :)

Wordles about TY

Patty came to class today to conduct a focus group for her research on blogging. She had a Wordle - a Word Cloud - of this TY blog.



The word cloud showed that WENT was used the most in the blog along with TY, GROUP and COMPETITION.

Here is the link to Wordle - why not make your own Word Cloud and post it on your blog?

http://www.wordle.net/

Why blog?

Hmmm, I wonder do TY agree?

Siobhan's a winner!

I've been following the Irish Blog Awards from Belfast all evening on Twitter and have heard that Siobhan B has won the Best Youth blog.

Image from SluggerOToole.com.

Congratulations Siobhan, great work on your blog.

Why not visit Siobhan's blog here and leave her a message?

Mrs L :)

P.S.
Was it like this Siobhan?..................

Congratulations and Good Luck

Well done to Siobhan Brady who is through to the finals of the Irish Blog Awards (Youth category).

I nominated Siobhan's blog some time ago and over the last few weeks all the nominated blogs have been judged by anonymous judges. Obviously the judges liked what they saw on Siobhan's blog because it was shortlisted for the finals.

http://awards.ie/blogawards/2011/02/28/youth-2011-finalists/

Please stop by her blog http://siobhanb.blogspot.com/ and wish her good luck. Have a read of her great blog while you're there.

Congratulations Siobhan. I'm delighted that the very first year we have used blogging in TY that you have set the standard this high. Brilliant work.

Good luck to all the finalists in the Youth category, and indeed to all the bloggers, be they journalists, politicians, comedians, scientists or whatever.

Mrs L :)

Hello to Mrs Gentrup

I'm delighted to see that the 7 girls who have decided to take the Student Blogging Challenge supported by EduBlogs, have been interacting with their guest teacher for the challenge, Mrs Beth Gentrup.

Mrs Gentrup works in Nebraska, USA and is a teacher of gifted students. She has asked lots of questions about TY and I hope she enjoys reading all you get up to!

Mrs L :)

Irish Blog Awards

Good luck to Siobhan B who has been included in two categories of the Irish Blog Awards - Best Newcomer and Best Youth categories.

http://awards.ie/blogawards/2011/02/13/youth-2011-nominations/

http://awards.ie/blogawards/2011/02/13/newcomer-2011-nominations/


There will be two rounds of judging so here's hoping Siobhan gets through. Well done anyway Siobhan on being chosen.

Mrs L :)

The Student Blog Challenge

Well done to Siobhan and Aisling B for entering the Student blog challenge. I'm delighted. I see their blogs have been visited by a teacher from New Zealand already. Good luck girls.

Anyone else want to join them??? Find out more info here.

Register your blog here.

What will the challenges involve?