These holidays I have continued on with the team 4 holiday blogging blogger that was set up a few years ago by Matt Goodwin. This is our own team blogger especially used for holiday blogging. With the students still continuing to be at home even in the holidays with their chomebooks at home we thought why not continue on some momentum for learning during these holidays! This was an optional task for our learners as I know there were many of them still wanting to have access to some form of learning each day.
The holiday blogging challenge is a research type model that is set up by the students and the topics that they think others will want to learn about. Each day there is a new challenge on the team 4 holiday blog and the students are given the opportunity to research this topic. The task is the same each day where they will need to find out facts and information about the topic challenge. This finishes off with the vlog or screencast of the students sharing what they have learnt about the topic for the day. We run this Monday to Friday each week of the holidays with some days have double challenges!
I found that these holidays I had a lot more students wanting to share topic ideas and also complete the learning each day. The students that have participated in this holiday blogging have absolutely loved it and there was no pressure to have to complete it each day. We just had it there as an extra thing that students could do while still being in level 3 during the holidays. There were some fantastic challenge ideas along with some really creative research tasks created by students across the whole of team 4! It was a great way to keep momentum going along with having our learners set up to take part in the summer learning journey over the December and January school holidays.
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