Writing Quality Comments on Blogs

In our Cybersmart lessons we have been learning how to write positive, thoughtful, helpful comments to publish on other people's blogs. 

We drafted our comments on a Google Doc. You can read all our comments on our class CYbersmart page here.

This week we wrote comments on Room 3 @ Matawai School about Te Reo Māori Greetings, You can read the blog post and our comments here. 

Here are some quality comments from our work today.. Can you see how they have been positive, thoughtful and helpful? 

Cole's Swim For Life

Every Monday Rimu Hub go to Swim For Life.

We have all made a blog post about Swim For Life. You can read other student's blogs by looking in the side bar and clicking on their name. Please leave a comment if you look at their blog.

Here is Cole's work.  Please visit his blog here and leave a comment. 

Every Monday we go to Enterprise pool on a bus.
The bus is green white and orange and sometimes we all have different buses.
We play games on the buses all different kinds of games like rock-paper-scissors and more.
We have to bring togs and goggles but if you forget your goggles they have some there.
I like the Domino's cos the other person would pull you in backwards into the pool with life jackets.
We have six groups in swimming two groups go together at a time.
On the way back we have to drop Libby off at her house cos she goes home straight after swimming.
The life jackets help us to float on our back.

Swim for Life

Swim For Life is important because it teaches us what to do if we get into difficulty in the water. Living in Tairāwhiti we have lots of beaches, rivers and lakes around us. We also can have very hot summers so many kids spend the summer enjoying being in the water so it is important that our tamariki know how to be safe in the water.

Even though I don't get into the water because I am the teacher, I am watching the Swim for Life tutors teaching our learners so I get tips and ideas that I can use when I take a class swimming in our school pool in the summer.

All our learners enjoy the Swim for Life lessons, and they show our school values and learner qualities of resilience, confidence and perseverance as well as self manager each time they go to Swim for Life.

My digital learning object shows I can add text to shapes and embed the slides in my blog.

Quality Blog Posts

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning about quality Blog Posts. We started our blog post with some reflections on leanring. We embedded our "Exploring Blog" slides as well. We had to make sure our blog post had a title and labels before we published it.

Here is Matthew L's work...

Today I was learning to get information from other peoples blog posts.

My new learning was how to see other people's world map.

I enjoyed finding out new things about different people.

I found it challenging to write everything.

My digital learning object shows I can  read other people's blogs carefully,  find information and fill in a table.

Next time I would change everything the speed I did it at.

read more on Matthew's blog

Exploring Blogs

 Today I was learning how to find my way around a blog, and seeing where to find information about the person blogging.

My new learning was I found where the blogs  show you how many people have visited your blog as well as the  different countries the blog visitors come from.

I enjoyed reading the other people's blogs to find out a bit about them.

I found it challenging to remember to make a copy of the work first before I could start.

My digital learning object shows I can  read other people's blogs carefully,  find information and fill in a table.

Next time I would change how I got the information, it would be quicker to copy and paste the information I wanted rather than type it all myself.

Exploring Blogs

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were exploring blogs and looking for information on them.

We had to look carefully at the side bars to find information and statistics.

We scanned the blog description to find information quickly about the person, their school and their profile.

We looked at how many people had visited the blogs, how many different countries these visitors were from and how many blog posts they had done in 2019.

Have you looked at your blog statistics recently?

How do they compare with these one that Braiden found?

We could find information quickly from the blog description and "About Me".

Have you go this information on your blog?

Here's Charlie's work with the information found on the blogs.