Writing Quality Blog Comments

We are learning to identify what a quality blog comment needs.

Here are some examples of our Google Drawing posters showing the parts of a quality blog post.

We practiced writing a comment that contains:

a greeting

something positive

something thoughtful

something helpful 

a question

Here is our example:

• Kia ora. My name is Cypress. I'm from Coastal Taranaki School.

• You did a great job of explaining the meaning behind the kite. And I also like the way you included different versions of the story.

• This reminded me of when  I was little and sang a song about the rainbow.

• May sure if you use another kite it is as perfect as the first one.

• What did you use to colour it?

How do you feel when someone says something positive, thoughtful or helpful about something you have created?

Jason

Hi my name is Jason, I am 100 + 56 - 6 + 6 - 106 years old. I am the best teacher at Coastal Taranaki School, well that is what I think. I love dad jokes like, I'm tired, Hi Tired, my name is Mr Brewer. In my family I have four people and three pets, my son Noah, My Daughter Elize, and Elizabeth my wife. My dogs are Sam and Tess, sam is white and Tess is Black. They look like the keys on a piano when we walk them down the road. 

It's Almost Time!

Next week something very exciting is about to happen... Room 3 is going to be the first class at Coastal Taranaki School to have individual learner blogs!

Today we were learning to choose information to share about ourselves on our individual blog. We needed to make sure the information we were sharing was personal information (ok to share) and not private information (which can identify us).

First we looked at some other learners blogs to see what information they have shared in their blog profiles for inspiration.

Then we wrote our own blog profiles and took an appropriate photo to put on our blogs when we finally get them.

Don't forget to come back next Friday to read our first blog post!

Do you have a Digital Footprint?

We are learning that everything we look at, click on, upload, download, comment or share leaves a footprint.

We used History (Ctrl H) on our Chromebook to look at all the places we have been online in the 24 hours. 

We placed icons of these websites on the beach and used footprints to mark our trail.

This represented our digital footprint for the last 24 hours.

• Every-time we go online we leave a trail.

• Footprints online are called a digital footprint.

• We need to make smart decisions about what we share online.

• Our digital footprint will be online forever.

• If we are not sure we don’t share and check with a trusted adult.

Sssh! That's Private Information!

 

We are learning to understand why some information is private and why we as humans like sharing personal information about ourselves.

It is awesome to want to share things with others - actually it’s part of what makes us human (see the slide above).

But some information shouldn't be shared online:

• Your full name

• Your full address

• Your date of birth

This information is private and can be used to identify you.

We practiced turning private information into personal information:

Private vs Personal - Do You Agree?

We are learning what information is private information and should only be told to people we trust. 

We completed a drag and drop activity to show which personal information we would share online and which private information we would not share online.

We had to give a reason why each item should be in a public or private category
and shared what we had chosen with a buddy.

Do you agree with what we decided?

Cybersmart - Sorting Information: Cooper vs Ruby

We are learning to understand the difference between private and personal information

Today we learned that we can find information from a range of sources within texts provided.

We read about Cooper and Ruby and worked out what information we can find out about them from their books.

We can find information from text (writing).

We can find information from images (pictures).

We can find information from audio (sound).

Here is the information we found out from reading Cooper and Ruby's books: