Making Good Comments

This is a great video about making comments, made by the students in Mrs Yollis' class.:

Moana Reading Activity

Today you will be looking to find news on the internet.
Work your way around the sites listed below to find an article that interests you...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/
http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

1) On your blog  you will complete this activity
2) You need to write the title above for your heading
3) Link in the URL from your article and write a brief description of why that article interests you.


With journalism, the key in finding a good story to write about in the paper is you have to find what will interest the locals, what is 'NEWS' and choose an angle that will hook in your reader.
The process of writing the article involves asking the interviewee lost of questions....

Your job today is to find out what question would have been asked to get the answers that were written in the article.

1) List all the question in the post on your blog
2) Put these questions in order of what you view as being the most important facts in the story.
Think of WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW

Term 1

1. Use 3 of these starters:
The best thing that happened last term was...
One thing I learned last term was...
 One new friend I made last term is...
My favourite subject last term was...
The sport I played last term was
Something I will always remember is...

2. Look for the next student name on the blog after yours.  Sign out.  Now write a comment on their last blog post.
 

What Is A Good Blog?

I have looked at blogs from other schools.
My favourite blog is the one from
A good blog should have:

• pictures
• lower case writing - writing in capitals is like shouting

Why Do We Blog?

This year, a big part of our digital literacy programme will be sharing our learning with our community through a class blog. We are going to explore the blogs of classes who are blogging. This way, we will be able to decide how we want to use our blog and what we want it to look like. We will also be able to start making connections with other classes all over the world.

Problem:

What are the features of a good blog?

Unpack by asking new questions:

What is a blog?

Who blogs?

What are features?

How will we find out?

Research tasks:

Google some blogs - here is a list of some to find:

1. http://8cshs.blogspot.co.nz/

2. http://www.9plus10.blogspot.co.nz/

3. http://misstindlesclass.wordpress.com/

3. http://thompson67.edublogs.org/

4. http://mravery.edublogs.org/

5. http://theinsandouts.co.nz/

6. http://inyourneighbourhood.edublogs.org/

6. http://glenviewgo.com/

7. http://melvilleroom8.blogspot.co.nz/

8. http://mistea.edublogs.org/

9. http://m9-12.blogspot.co.nz/

10. http://blogs.nist.ac.th/6gd/category/blog/

11.http://eschoolblogs.org.au/hthomsett/2013/01/06/tasmanian-bush-fires/

12. http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.co.nz/

13. http://5s2012.edublogs.org/

14. http://4kmand4kj.global2.vic.edu.au/

15.http://y62013.horwichparish.net/2013/02/08/6b-at-frankie-and-bennys/

16. http://pesking.blogspot.co.nz/

17. http://tisthompson.blogspot.co.nz/

18. http://pesdariusl.blogspot.co.nz/

19. http://22pointview.blogspot.co.nz/

20. http://annaslearners.blogspot.co.nz/