Monday, Febuary 6,2012

What did we do?
  Today Ms. Lees critiqued some blogs with the whole class. First she chose a volunteer and went on their blog to see our posts. We talked about each posts and gave them a mark out of  five. Some ways to improve our posts is to give examples and separating homework and tips.

 After critiquing a few posts, Ms.Lees showed us a video called "Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days". You will find a link on Ms.Lees's blog. Here is the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days.html. 

The video is about this man who took upon challenges for thirty days straight. Some examples are writing a novel, taking a picture each day and walking/biking to school or work. Ms.Lees told us to brainstorm our own thirty days challenge during the fifteeen minutes left.   

Why we did it:

 We looked at other people's blog posts and critiqued them so that we would know what Ms.Lees was looking for in our posts. An example is that we did not stray to a different subjects. A thirty days challenge can help us with humanities is when your challenge is to read a book or at least a chapter from a book consistently for thirty days. Its improves your reading skills. Doing stuff consistently helps you when you do homework by actually remembering to do homework because you are so used to doing something consistently.
Connections:
 Looking at other peoples blog posts and critiquing them is like editing a story. Almost anything you do in life need the skill of editing, for example a teacher has to check students work or mark it too. Thirty days challenges help you by staying healthy when you challenge yourself to walk to school everyday for thirty days.
 doing the challenge and actually manage to finish it helps with getting things done. You will need the skill with with getting homework done in various subjects.
Homework:
We have to post our own thirty days challenge and write a paragraph about it on our blogs.
Tips:
 If you need ideas for the challenge here are some examples:
- Walking/biking to school
-Staying off of Facebook
-Taking a photo each day
-Writing a novel
-Drink more water
-Stop drinking carbinated drinks
 The challenge must be possible to do and not something like writing a dictionary everyday or stop dinking for a month.