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Year 8 Excursion – Monday, 5 December

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On Monday, 5 December, the Year 8 English class will walk down town to make a video for their pen pals in Italy. This is in response to a video sent from Italy in which our pen pals showed us around their town.

We plan to film at the foreshore/jetty/skate park/beach and Chinaman’s Lookout. We will have ‘recess’ at Sally’s Tree and return to school at lunchtime.

Students can bring along a small ‘prop’ such as a skateboard, small fishing rod, ball or frisbee to use in the video.

Permission slips will go home on Monday.

Parents are welcome to join us.

How to comment

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To be entirely honest. I don’t know really know how to exactly and correctly make a comment. There shouldn’t necessarily be a certain way that you should comment. Its your own opinion, you can say whatever you want. If you wanna say something extremely negative. Than say it. Just be aware of the consequences that come from the things you say. No matter what you say there is going to be some kind of back lash. Your going to anger someone somewhere no matter what. If you do get a negative comment on anything you post, just ignore it. Or even better, just mess with them. Say something to confuse them or trick them because the people who usually write those comments are complete idiots and easy to trick. But whatever. Ill just talk about my little guide on how to comment.

The first thing I would say is that while that you definitely shouldn’t be negative on your commenting, you don’t necessarily have to be positive. Someone’s work might be an absolute pile of rubbish. Don’t tell them that its good then they’ll just continue to make the same mistakes. Just tell them that it needs work and how they could improve their writing. Constructive feedback and being honest can help someone with improving themselves but it doesn’t mean its okay to be negative.

You should also at least make your comment somewhat relevant and have some significance. You don’t care and the people who say it don’t care if you say good job, or nice work. If your not being constructive at least add something to the topic. Your input really isn’t needed if it doesn’t mean anything. If its not going to be relevant or helpful don’t even bother writing it, no one cares.

And please just spell correctly. I’m sick of seeing the most illogical and poorly spelt comment ever imaginable. Read over it and try to rephrase it if it doesn’t make sense. What is the point of something that nobody can make sense of. I’m just sick of it all.

But what’s the point of even writing this. Everyone whos going to read will likely already know all of these things and applied to their commenting a long time ago. They’ve also probably already heard these things over and over again on literally everyone else’s blogs. And the people who do need to read this. most certainly won’t. I don’t even know why we bother. Those people who do the exact opposite of everything me and just about everyone else has said will continue to do those things across the interwebs.

I think you get the point, so ill just stop there and call an end.

all about me – Harrison

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My name is Harrison and i am 13 years old.

I was born in England but i moved to Kalbarri western Australia when i was only 2 years old.

I am the second oldest out of the children. my step brother is 26 and my sisters are 9 and 8.

Dad, Mum, Darci, Sarah, 2 dogs, 3 hermit crabs and I all live in a two story house.(my step brother lives in England)

I have a big back yard that is all sand and I also have a trampoline in the garden.

The sports that I like to play are soccer, tennis, volleyball/water volleyball.

The soccer team that Dad and I support is West Ham United they are an english team.

The school that I go to is Kalbarri District High School but it is very small with only about 230 students in it.

the class that I am in is year 8 it has about 20 in it.

My best friends are Alby, Damon, Max.N, Tom, Ben and Beau.

About Me

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Ummm, hi. My name is Jordan I live in Kalbarri which is located six hours north of Perth along the coast of WA. I am 14 years of age and enjoy things such as surfing, footy, swimming and a little bit of diving. I live with a family of four. I only have one brother who is younger than me and a complete rat. I also live with my mummy and daddy. I also like to listen to music and currently excited to get my hands on the Green Day Album. It’s going to be so good. Other bands that I enjoy a lot are My Chemical Romance, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Neon Trees and many more.

In my spare time I either listen to music or go for a surf. There are plenty of places to surf in Kalbarri. For when the swell is smaller and as long as there is no swell beaches such as Blue Holes, Dang Dangs or Echoes are all really good spots. The surf spot that Kalbarri is most famous for is Jacques Beach. Jacques beach is about a five minute drive south of town and actually holds three really good surf breaks. These include breaks are known as The Point, Lopes and The Bay. All of these breaks kinda connect together so that when you get a really good and a really big wave. You can ride it all the way from the start of the point, through Lopes and into the bay.

But if there is no swell. Then there is a problem. I used to free dive when it was good but I can’t really do it anymore mainly due to the fact that I don’t have a spear gun any more. That’s because dad accidentally snapped it while loading it. Plus I couldn’t ever equalise due to my sinuses being blocked. To equalise is to like make the pressure in your ear drum equal to the pressure of the water that is applying it. Or something like that. I’ll still occasionally go for a snorkel or something but if its dead flat then I’d just grab a couple of mates and go rock jumping down at pot alley.

I attend school at Kalbarri District High School because it is the only school in Kalbarri and the nearest school is about another 100km’s away. Kalbarri is only a small town with about 2000 people living it, I think, not really sure. Kalbarri is mainly located alongside a river known as Murchison River. But there are still many beaches located nearby as mentioned before. When you follow the river further in land you come across the national park and in it are locations like the gorges, natures window the z bend and many more. I really haven’t gone to any of these locations for a long time so I can’t really remember what the locations are like but I hear that they are really nice.

There is not really a general sport that the majority of the town revolves around. A fair few people are from NSW and Queensland so they more enjoy rugby but there isn’t a team for it. Some people play footy some play golf, some play a bit of cricket. A large amount of women in the community play netball though. You don’t see too many footy games in Kalbarri, there is only like one or two games that get held here a year. But everyone is generally pretty enthusiastic about them and you get some pretty good crowds on those days.

But for the majority of the time you’ll have to go to Northampton or further get any consistent games being played. Most kids that play footy play for the Northampton rams and play against other clubs from Geraldton, Dongara, and many more. I usually play for Northampton as well but this year I didn’t as there weren’t enough players for a team. But my brother does play for them now.

And that’s pretty much me.

STUDENT BLOGGING CHALLENGE – Update for students

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The Student Blogging Challenge has well and truly begun and well done to those of you who have made a good start.  And very well done to Grace Crogan for taking part in the SPECIAL: BLOG ACTION DAY.

Unfortunately Student Bloggers who do not complete the activities this week will be disqualified by the Blogging Team (not by me!) so make sure you get up to date in class or – if needbe – at home.

Class Bloggers will also be taken off this activity if they are not up to date by the end of this week.

THIS IS A CLASS AND HOME WORK TASK.  (If you do not have a computer with wifi, make sure you do it in homework class).   Remember we are already a week behind the others because it works on USA time and they started their school year a week before our Term 4.

I can’t remember how to find the activities

I have put the Student Blogging Challenge badge on the blog. Click onto it and it will take you directly to the tasks you should be completing.

Where should I be up to now?

You should have completed all tasks for Weeks 1 and 2 and ready to start Week 3 activities on Thursday of  Week 3. So you should have completed already the following –

Week 1 Tasks –

Activity 1: Create an avatar to use on your blog.  There are many different avatar creation sites on the web. I have been to many of them and created lots of different avatars. Some you just save and download to your computer to then upload into your blog. Others you need to use the snipping tool to save a square image of your avatar. It is always best to save as a jpg format.

Check out the Week 1 Challenge page for a symbaloo of websites to use for avatars such as lego figures, comics etc.

Did you find a great avatar site not mentioned here? Write a post about your avatar and how it represents you. Include a link to the website where you created the avatar.

Activity 2: Write or update your About Me page.

Whenever I visit a blog for the first time, I always check to see who the person is that is writing the blog posts. Do they have similar interests to me?

Student Bloggers should make an ABOUT ME PAGE and other students write an ABOUT ME POST.

Be creative on your About Me page. Here are some ideas and links.

Student Bloggers, here are instructions for creating your page

  1. Login to your blog, go to Settings> Discussion and make sure the default setting is ticked for allow people to leave comments> save the changes at the bottom
  2. Now go to the dashboard>pages>add new
  3. Change the title to About Me or something similar.
  4. If you only have one row of icons above the box, click on the last icon called the kitchen sink or toggle. This opens a second row which allows you to change font colours.
  5. In the box, write a bit about yourself remembering to be internet safe. Make sure you have checked out the pages from other students mentioned – many of them have been blogging for a while.
  6. In the area under the page writing box, you should see a Discussion box – open this and make sure you have ticked Allow comments.
  7. When you have finished click the big  button on the right side of your screen – probably says update or send for review.
  8. Once you have saved your about me page, go back and delete the sample page.
  9. If your theme doesn’t show pages in the header area, then you will need to go to dashboard> appearance> widgets and drag across the Pages one to your sidebar.

Finished the work for week 1?

Then head off to the class or student list above the blog header and start visiting other blogs. You might not want to comment this week but maybe check them out. Are there any students with interests the same as you? Do you have a mentor yet? Have they left you any comments?

Week 2 Tasks –

If you haven’t already done this, check out the second video on commenting on the Week 2 Blog Challenge page which will really help you with your activities and your comments.

Activity 1: Create a ‘How to comment’ page on your blog

Many themes and blogging platforms have different ways to leave a comment. You might need to click on the title of the post, or click on a number in a circle or click on the words ‘Leave a comment’. Write a page for your blog explaining how to leave a comment. You could write it as a set of steps or perhaps create a video showing what to do. Be creative. Check out the examples on the Challenge page

Activity 2: Make a set of commenting guidelines

Explain what you expect when someone leaves a comment on your blog.

  • What type of comment is acceptable?
  • Which type of comment will you put in the bin?

Check out the examples from the Challenge page:

Activity 3: Leave a comment on this post – you might be able to combine this with activity 4

Each week the best posts published in the Student Blogging Challenge are featured in the Flipboard magazine.  Check it out.

To check your posts we need you to leave a comment with a link to your post on this blog whenever you finish a weekly activity.

So your activity is to practise leaving a comment below with a link to your post for an activity you’ve completed this week or last week.

But first you need to know the difference between your BLOG link and your POST link

  • Blog link: http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org
  • Post link: http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2016/10/02/gday-my-name-is/

If your teacher is moderating and approving your posts, you will need to wait until this has been done before leaving me a link in a comment. (I do this as quickly as I can each evening)

Activity 4: Use some HTML in a comment

Did you check out Mrs Yollis’ blog? She includes a page with some HTML (code) you can use when commenting especially on blogspot blogs. If leaving a comment on an Edublogs blog, there is a post explaining the HTML to use on the Challenge page.  If you want to leave a link to your blog that looks neat and tidy, check out this post on the same page.

Activity 5: Visit other student or class blogs

Visit 4 other blogs on the lists above the header area. Leave a quality comment on one post on each blog. Might be the About Me page or another post you found interesting.  Write a post on your blog mentioning who you visited, which post you left a comment on and why, then include the comment you left. Hint: make sure you copy the comment before you hit the submit button. Check out some examples from previous students in the challenge: Allegra but try to include a link to the actual post you left a comment on, Meghana who has linked to both the student’s blog and their blog post where she left the comment.

Will visitors to your blog find it easy to search for a post they might be interested in commenting on? Maybe you need to start using Categories and Tags  or make sure you have an archive section.