You are Never Alone

Teachers, just like their students, need activities and challenges. They need the goal posts to shift just slightly so that they try something new.

That’s what I had in mind when, over on Blogging Corner in edna Groups, I set up the Blogging Corner Challenge 08 today. It will give participants in Blogging Corner a chance to participate in a weekly scheduled activity over the next 15 or so weeks. Each activity will be initiated by a registered member of the group. The activities will broaden participants’ experience, challenge them to write a blog posting for a purpose, motivate them to try something new, and allow them to showcase their own efforts.

This week’s challenge is Podcasting. The challenge title is deliberately “vague” to allow participants to tackle it from a number of angles.

Challenges are a feature of the blogging world, or at least in the part of it that I frequently inhabit, the book reading bloggers. There are all sorts of challenges: 50 books a year, historical novels, the Man Booker Challenge, the Orange Prize Challenge, the Pulitzer Prize challenge and so on. The Challenges tend to bring the participants closer together as they compare notes and reflect on their progress.

The only other challenges for educators that I have come across are the 31 Day Comment Challenge initiated by Sue Waters, and the 23 things challenge which you can find in various places. Both of these involve daily activities which I thought might be a bit burdensome, hence the idea of a weekly challenge.

Perhaps you can point me to other structured challenges for blogging educators?