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Student Blogging Challenge #8

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T-minus two days until Thanksgiving! Soon I’ll be riding in the car going to South Carolina!! I know for one thing I will be eating lots of pumpkin pie! So excited for Thursday! On a less happy note, this is the last week of the Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge and this is the last post to write :(. This last post is a reflection of what being a student blogger is like and what I enjoyed and liked about this challenge. I’ll be answering a few questions, sort of like a Q&A!

1. How many posts did you write and publish during the SBC? In your opinion, which post demonstrates your best writing?

I wrote 7 blog posts (including this one) in the Student Blogging Challenge. My class and I skipped week 7 of the SBC because we had so much stuff going on in communications! In my opinion, my best writing was put into my SBC #3 post where I made a free-verse poem about fall. I think that I used strong vocabulary in my poem and created good imagery to the viewer.

2.  Which SBC challenge was your favorite and why?

My favorite post that I wrote was probably my music post because I loved talking about all the memories and attachments I have with the songs of my life. A close second would probably be the Holiday and Festivities post where I wrote about Thanksgiving!  I think that the Music and Holidays posts were the most enjoyable and interesting to write. I also liked the “5 Tips to Leave a Quality Comment” because it was different and very informative to the people who view my blog. Making the infographic for this post was fun, too!

3. How many comments did you receive overall? Which post received the most comments? Why is commenting important to student bloggers?

I received a total 22 comments from other bloggers around the world in the Student Blogging Challenge. I have a little more if I include my “A-Z About My Name” and “All About Anna Claire” posts. I received 15 comments from my music post, which is the most I’ve ever gotten for the Student Blogging Challenge. Commenting is very important in blogging because it lets bloggers know that their posts are appreciated and looked at from other people from all over the globe. They also provide suggestions, constructive criticism, and praise for a blogger. Also, if you leave comments on someone’s blog, chances are that you will get a reply back and a visit from the blog you commented on!

4. What new web tools did you discover during the challenge? What new skills have you learned through blogging?

I learned how to make a collage from https://www.befunky.com/, find royalty-free images from a variety of websites, make an infographic on https://venngage.com/, create a Google Form, and I learned how to insert embed codes into my posts. Whenever my class and I were doing the SBC Week 1 task, we were required to make a Google Slides presentation on how we to make avatars and how we customize them to make them look like us. I inserted the slides into my blog post by putting in an embed code that I found on the Google Slides presentation. Before I started my blog, I had no idea about how any of these web tools worked. Now that I am a ~blogger~, I know how to create many things that can be found on my computer. Just like a lot of things, it’s not as complicated as it seems!

I also learned that writing blog posts and blogging in general takes a lot of time and effort. During this blogging challenge, every week we had something we had to complete, so it was sometimes overwhelming and stressful to make sure I got it in on time. Despite all of this, the SBC was so fun and a great start for a new blogger like me!

5. What are your plans for your future blogging?

 Some plans that I have for my blog in the future are writing about things I hope to do in the future, events I’m looking forward to, lessons I learned in middle school, book reviews, and much more! I’m excited for what topics I will be writing about in my blog soon! I think that my class and I are also going to be doing the next Student Blogging Challenge in March of 2020. 

It’s crazy to think that this is last week of the Student Blogging Challenge! These past few weeks have flown by so fast. Thanks to everyone who has commented and viewed my blog weekly for the new posts. If you participated in the SBC with me, what has been your favorite part about it? If you’re not a blogger, tell me if you would ever start a blog of your own. Like I’ve said a million times before, leave your blog URL so that I can see yours too. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with family, fun, and food! Bye!

 

–Anna Claire

 

E X T R A  R E S O U R C E S // L I N K S

How to make a collage (pictured above)- https://www.befunky.com/

Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge website- https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/

 

Student Blogging Challenge #4

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Happy November! I hope everyone is stuffing themselves with Halloween candy and counting the days till Thanksgiving and Christmas! This week for the SBC is free choice which I’m really happy about since I can really write about anything I want to! If you read my All About Me post, you probably saw that I really like to travel and go to new places. This week I am going to give not a Top 5, but a Top 6 list of some travel destinations that I hope to visit someday. I guess 6 is more intriguing than 5, right? Comment down below your favorite place that you have traveled to and if you have been to any of the places that are on my list. (BTW I’m super jealous if you’ve been to any of the destinations on my list.)

1. Bora Bora

I want to travel to Bora Bora because of the beautiful terrain and crystal blue water. My best friend, Mariam, and I always talk about how we want to go after we graduate high school together. Bora Bora looks like a great place to have  a fun and relaxing summer vacation where you can lay in the sun and swim all day!

 

2. Scotland

I am almost fully Scottish (along with Irish), so I really want to visit the place where my ancestors were originally from! Not to mention, the wonderful and iconic movie Braveheart was filmed in Scotland and I want to trace Mel Gibson’s footsteps;).

 

3. Greece

I have watched so many travel diaries/vlogs about people going to Santorini, Greece and not going to lie, I’m jealous of them. I know that I’m only in the eighth grade, but I NEED to go to Greece soon because it looks absolutely gorgeous. I also love gyros and pita bread so Greece is the place to be.

 

4. Australia

Australia is a beautiful place with its unique cities and gorgeous water. My favorite show when I was younger was Mako Mermaids and it was filmed off the Gold Coast of Australia. “Cleor” gets me everytime.  My favorite actor right now is Dacre Montgomery (he plays Billy Hargrove in Stranger Things) and he was born in Perth, Australia!

 

5.California

I really want to visit California because of the variety of things you can do there. Northern California is totally different from Southern California. I want to visit San Francisco and Los Angeles in particular. In San Francisco, I could see the “Full House” house and Alcatraz. Then in LA I could seek to find my favorite celebrities and actors ;). 

 

6. Hawaii

We all have to admit that there has been at least one time in our lives that we have wanted to travel to Hawaii. Well, at least I have! It’s fascinating to me that there are so many islands that make up Hawaii. Hawaii has been on my travel bucket list for as long as I can remember, and I think it always will be. If you take me to Hawaii, I will love you forever:).

Thank y’all for reading yet another blog post of mine! Not just saying this, it means the world to me. Hope everyone has a good rest of their week! Remember to keep it cool and comment down below. 

 

–Anna Claire

Student Blogging Challenge #3

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Sweater Weather

The exquisite mix of warm and cold weather of late October is perfect for wearing a comfy sweater and jeans.

 My warm fall drink keeps me snug with the chilly autumn weather. 

As I walk down my street, I see a common theme of creepy decorations and carved pumpkins outside every house.

The brisk wind blows through my hair, as I’m walking through the alluring fields of crimson, gold, and coral.

My shoes softly step on the gorgeous fallen leaves.

I look up and see an infinite sight of trees dancing in the wind.

 

Hello bloggers! My post this week was another Student Blogging Challenge task. This week I had to find a picture from a plagiarism and copyright free site to put into my blog. After I found a picture that I was interested in, I wrote a poem about it. I really liked this week’s challenge because I enjoyed writing a poem about my favorite season, FALL! In school we rarely write poems, so it was fun to experiment and write a free-verse poem.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or anything you would like to share, make sure to write a comment down below! Speaking of comments (shameless promo coming), look at my last post and the graphic that I made on how to write a quality comment. I would also appreciate it if you answered and filled out this Google Form to answer some simple questions. This way I can get to know all of you better! Thank you all for looking at my weekly blog post!

 

–Anna Claire

Student Blogging Challenge #2

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What’s up peeps! It’s now the second week of the Student Blogging Challenge! For this week, the task was commenting on at least 3 blogs on the Edublogs website and making a presentation, video, or graphic that conveys how to write a quality comment on a blog. Surprisingly, it takes a lot of thought and time into writing a comment that counts! I used the website Venngage/ Infographic to make my presentation of how to leave a great comment.

Also, I want to give out a couple shout-outs to some blogs that I really like. My best friend, Mariam, has a beautiful and interesting blog. She’s extremely funny and loves a lot of the things that I do! Click here to check out her blog. This week I stumbled across a blog on the Edublogs website and found Julianna’s blog. Julianna has well-written posts and great ideas. Click here to see her blog!

Comment down below what your favorite season is, mine’s fall! Stay tuned for more SBC posts!

–Anna Claire