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A NEW KIND OF COMMENTING CHALLENGE #SOL18

Lanny Ball

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Congratulations!  You have entered the tenth day of the March Slice of Life Challenge (SOLSC)!  All of us here at Two Writing Teachers, as well as the entire community, are hoping you are finding this March Slice of Life Story Challenge to be rewarding, as you share your stories and “fill the cups” of other writers in our community with your generous comments and feedback.

Like our adult community, our student writing community thrives on comments and feedback. We invite our students to participate in the Classroom Challenge in hopes that they will be able to connect with other writers from around the community and the world.  In the spirit of that global community, we are offering a brand new kind of commenting challenge. As part of the 11th Annual SOLSC, we present our first mid-month challenge! Are you ready?

Here is how it works:

  • This weekend, Saturday, 3/10 and Sunday 3/11 (through 11:59 PM EDT), comment on 25 or more Classroom SOLSC posts, which can be accessed on this Padlet.
  • Participants will have all day on Saturday, 3/10 and all day Sunday 3/11 to complete this commenting challenge.
  • Participants must fill out the Google form embedded below NO LATER THAN Monday, 3/12 at noon Eastern Daylight Time. (NOTE: There’s a time change that weekend so make note of Eastern Daylight Time.)
  • Be sure to keep track! (You could track your comments with tally marks on a sticky note.)
  • After you leave at least 25 comments by Sunday evening, come back to this post and fill out the Google Form below. This must be done by 11:59 EDT on Monday, 3/12. Don’t forget, you will get one less hour due to Daylight Saving Time (EDT)!
  • The winner will be chosen using a random number generator and announced in a separate post on Tuesday, 3/13 at 5:30 a.m.
  • It is important to leave your information regarding the commenting challenge in the Google Form. You will notice that comments are closed for this post to ensure that all contenders input their information within the form and not inadvertently within the comment section.

Questions: 

Should you have questions, feel free to contact one of the co-authors:

  • If your last name begins with the letters A – G, please email questions to Beth, beth[at]elizabethmoore[dot]work
  • If your last name begins with the letters H – M, please email questions to Betsy, betsymhubbard{at}gmail.com
  • If your last name begins with the letters N- S, please email questions to Lanny, lanny.ball[{at}gmail.com.
  • If your last name begins with the letters T – Z, please email questions to Melanie, meehanmelanie{at}gmail.com

Screen Shot 2018-02-05 at 5.26.19 PMThe person who is randomly chosen from the commenting challenge Google Form will win an AMAZING prize! If you are the lucky winner, you will receive a Skype session from Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie-Roberts, as well as a copy of their fabulous book, DIY Literacy!  Huge thanks to Kate and Maggie for donating this wonderful opportunity and book!  Learn more about them and the incredible work they do at their website, https://www.kateandmaggie.com/.

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Comments are closed.  If you have questions please email:

  • If your last name begins with the letters A – G, please email questions to DebFrazier4{at}gmail.com.
  • If your last name begins with the letters H – M, please email questions to beth{at}elizabethmoore.work.
  • If your last name begins with the letters N- S, please email questions to Lanny Ball lanny.ball[{at}gmail.com.
  • If your last name begins with the letters T – Z, please email questions to Kathleen Sokolowski mrs.sokolowski{at}gmail.com.

Published by Lanny Ball

For more than 29 years, Lanny has taught, coached, presented, staff developed, and consulted within the exciting and enigmatic world of literacy. With unyielding passion and belief in the possibility of workshop teaching, Lanny has worked to support students, teachers, and school administrators around the country in outgrowing themselves as both writers and readers. Working first as a classroom teacher, then as a coach and TCRWP Staff Developer, Lanny is now a literacy specialist, working and living in the great state of Connecticut. Outside of literacy, he enjoys raising his three ambitious young daughters with his wife, and playing the piano. Find him on this blog, as well as on Twitter @LannyBall. Lanny is also a former co-author of a blog dedicated to supporting writing teachers and coaches that maintain classroom writing workshops, twowritingteachers.org.