The Puzzle Pieces

When writing posts on your blog it is important to add images. Adding an image can make your post more interesting to read. It can also make more people want to start reading your post. Remember you need to credit your photos too. I find that the best place to get images is Flickr. Another good website is compfight. To make sure you can use an image you have to check the rights.For example…

This photo has

• Attribution— You must credit this persons photo (say that it’s theirs)
• Noncommercial — You may not use this picture for commercial purposes. (try to sell something using this image)

To make sure I give credit I will say who took this picture and link it:

cc flickr image: puppy in the grass by justmakeit

For this weeks student blogging challenge we have to write about the free rice program. It is where you answer word questions and each time you get a correct question it gives ten grains of rice to a hungry person. It is an awesome program. If you are a part of the student blogging challlenge then you can join the challenge group on free rice. Then we can help feed hungry people together! So far the group has collected 47 950 grains of rice. What do you think about Free Rice? Have you joined? How many grains have you collected?

For week 3 of the student blogging challenge we have to write a post about what we think is a good comment. Commenting is a very important part of blogging. I think a good comment should include…

1. Acknowledge what you read on the post.
2. leave your link to build readership.
3. Make a connection to what you read.
4. Ask a question to continue the conversation.

These are the four things that I think a good comment should have. I always like to reply to my comments because it builds readership and I would also like to answer their questions. What do you think a good comment should include?

edited by: Celina

cc flickr image: add your comment by premasagar released under attribution-Non commercial lisence

For this weeks challenge I have to interview my mentor. I actually don’t know my mentors name besides EDM310. I am guessing that you are in a group of students. So here are a few questions for how ever EDM310 is.

What is your name?

What does EDM310 mean?

What is something interesting about yourself?

What is  your favourite part about being a mentor?

Where are you from?

I am hoping that you are able to answer these questions in your comments and let me know more about yourself.

edited by: Celina

This week for the blogging challenge we had to go to different sites and show my creativity. I went to one of the art sites called this is sand. It was cool.  It is where you pile different colored sand on top of each other to make a cool picture. This is the picture that I created. Where have you shown your creativity?

edited by: Celina

On April 19 our school did the Tim Horton’s Community clean Up. Over 10 000 kids around the Vancouver Island participated in this event.  It was a great way to get everyone cleaning up the community.

I was surprised on how much we found. I was amazed on what we did find! I was also kind of disappointed that our community looked that way. At first I was not to excited to walk in the mud and pick up garbage but in the end it was totally worth it. It definitely feels good to know that our community is cleaner! I hope everyone realized how bad it was so that they don’t litter anymore, and our town “stays” clean.

Our class collected 10 huge bags full of garbage and most of the other things couldn’t fit in a garbage bag! We gathered a lot of hidden treasures on our walk. Some things that we found were an old garden hose, tubes, pipes, house siding, a toy car, toilet seat and even a water dispenser. After walking in the park we went along the back trail and found even more garbage! I hope that our town stays clean!

Have you cleaned up your community lately? What were some things that you found?

edited by: Celina

cc flickr image: Colorful Recycling Containers for Trash by epSos.de released under Attribution license

This month our class is having an Entrepreneur Fair. An Entrepreneur Fair is where you get to sell a product that you have made and learned to market.  You get to see how much of a profit you make after you figure out how much it cost to create it. My goal is to sell out of my product!

My product is Kool-Aid flavoured lip gloss. I’m going to have two or three different flavours. Since Kool-Aid mix and some sweetener is in the lip gloss, it’s okay if you ingest it!  My lip gloss will keep your lips smooth and smelling nice. Please fill out this survey and help me know what you would like to buy if you had the chance. Thanks!

A lot of people like to travel and visit other places around the world. You might want to see world landmarks and tourist attractions like the Eiffel tower or some of the Egyptian pyramids or even the great wall of China. There are a lot of fun and interesting places to visit around the world.

If you are interested in visiting Canada, British Colombia then you should continue reading this post. I recommend you to visit Mount Washington. It is a very popular mountain. It has over400 cm of snow. You can ski, snowboard, tube and even go on the bungee trampoline in the Summer. Other great place to visit is British Colombia’s great beaches. A great thing about our beaches is that they are clean and have a lot of sea life. One of my favourite beaches to go to is Tofino. It is one of the most beautiful places to go. I highly recommend visiting this beach.

If you are looking for a fun, exciting and educational place then Science world is another place to go. You will learn a lot of interesting facts, and see a lot of cool things. If you go to Science World you will definitely have a great time! If you enjoy animals and sea life then I recommend the Vancouver Aquarium as well.  You will always learn something new and exciting when you visit the aquarium. You can see sea life and other mammals from monkeys to birds.  I have been there twice and it was a lot of fun. A exciting place you might want to visit is Play Land. They have lots of exciting and fun rides, you will definitely have the time of your life!

edited by: Josee

cc flickr image Aeroplane by puddy_uk released under cc Attribution-Share Alike license (picture edited on picnik) this post is for the student blogging challenge

During the first week of the Blogging Challenge I visited many interesting sites, but three stood out above all the rest.

Sophie’s Blog is a good place to start. It always have good, funny, helpful posts that is fun for everyone.

Another one is Jane’s Blog, her blog stood out because her posts are really interesting and because her blog was very organized and fun.

You might also want to visit Kehana’s blog because she always has great story’s to share in her posts and they are always very interesting and fun.

If you would like to see more blogs like these, check out The Student Blogging Challenge. I hope this liked these student blogs, feel free to go leave a comment on one of their posts.

edited by: Celina

cc flickr image: Standing out by localjapantimes released under Attribution-Non commercial-No Derivative Works license

In class we have been working on poems about the issue of bullying. We have been working really hard on making them send a powerful message. This was important to us because bullying is a big problem and a lot of terrible things have happened because of this issue. If you have ever been bullied  or seen someone get bullied then you know that it is hard to stop  and a lot of times kids don’t speak up about the problem because they are scared that the bully will hurt them even more if they tell someone.

Our poems our based on the “I am just a boy” poem that a fourteen year old  wrote a few years ago. Our class hopes that writing these poems can help kids who are being bullied by making them want to share their stories too. Part of doing this was to celebrate pink shirt day which is on the 29th on February. If you want to learn more about this day here is the link to my post about pink shirt day. I have never been bullied before so I didn’t have any experiences to share in my poem. I did have ideas of how victims of bullying could feel so I decided to share those instead. So here is my poem. I hope you enjoy it and maybe it will encourage you to share your story and how you feel about bullying.

I am just a girl
I am just a girl who deserves to feel like I belong
I am just a girl who hopes to be accepted for who I am and not for who you want me to be
I am just a girl who doesn’t want to be left out and alone
I am just a girl who isn’t going to act like someone I’m not just to be apart of a group
I am just a girl who hopes for bullying to end so more people don’t get hurt.
I am just a girl who isn’t going to stand by and watch the problem get bigger instead of making a change.
I am just a girl who has the right to be different
I am just a girl who didn’t realize how bad bullying could get, but now I’m understanding the impacts of it.
I am just a girl who doesn’t deserve to be hated or to be judged
I am just a girl who wants to be happy
I am just a girl.

If you have ever seen someone get bullied, you should stand up to the bully and speak up! Don’t be a bystander. I hope my poem made you want to make your own so you can share your story.

edited by: Mrs. Watt and Celina

cc flickr image: little purple flowers by Wilson (Army Gal) released under Attribution-Non commercial license (edited in picnik)