Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival

Hi All!

Hopefully you have found your way here because you are interested in writing or reading about teaching or learning and thought you would check out the Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival.  I’m hoping to build a monthly carnival and community that bring together different interests and perspectives.  It could be formal or informal, from the point of view of the teacher, learner, or an outsider.  It is absolutely not just for teachers or school parents, we are all teaching and learning all the time and have lots to share.  Having said that, most of the writers I’ve talked to are parents of small children, so that’s the main audience.

For those who’ve never been involved in a carnival, several blogs all write on the same theme to be published on the same day.  At the bottom of the post are links to all the other participants.  So you get to build relationships with other blogs, have lots of links coming in to your blog, and the readers from several other blogs are seeing your link.  It’s a great way of getting more links and traffic and finding lots of new blogs at the same time.

This page will be the carnival’s home, with any important dates, addresses, information and the submission form.  Please contact me anytime or email me at deb AT science-at-home dot org.  I am really new at this and would rather hear about suggestions, questions or problems so I can help with them, rather than miss out on potential fantastic posts!

Carnivals will run on the third Monday of the month, with submissions by the Wednesday before.  (For those of you involved in CarNatPar this is the following week, so you will have your submission for Teach/Learn all done before CarNatPar goes live )

DO:

• Write something new for the carnival.
• Get creative – the theme is a guide and supposed to spark ideas.  Photos, poems, videos or art are all great entries.
• Use it as an opportunity to post something a bit different, it’s always fun to try a different type of post.
• Put together a quality post, if you are getting visitors from other blogs you want to impress them so they’ll stay.
• Visit the other carnival participants, comment for them and if you find their blogs interesting, follow them.
• Encourage your readers to visit.
• Meet deadlines and pass on all the information you are supposed to, it will give you the best chance of having visitors from the carnival.  If you need help scheduling a post or finding a URL, just ask.
• Write for a family oriented audience, please avoid profanity or adult content.

What now?

1. Bookmark this page so you can check the details.
2. Put it into your blogging schedule.
3. Grab the button with this code if you want to put it in your sidebar:
   

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4. Write your post! Then fill in the submission form.

On the Sunday before the carnival everyone will publish their post by 9pm Australian Darwin time and send me the URL, I can put them together and send you the codes to add to your post, then on the Monday read, comment and enjoy.  Go here to convert times: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

May Carnival

• Theme: Kids and Learning
• Due: 11th May – there’s a long lead time because it’s the first so you have time to fit it into your schedule.
• Date: 18th May

June Carnival

• Theme: Art, don’t forget that includes performing and music as well as visual arts!  Plus responding and art in society.
• Due: Wednesday 9th June
• Date: Monday 14th June (live on Sunday 13th)

July Carnival

• Theme: English – this is before Literacy and Numeracy week, but English includes Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing and Viewing.
• Due: Wednesday 14th July
• Date: Monday 19th July (live on Sunday 18th)

August Carnival

• Theme: Science, to tie in with National Science week.  Science includes Life and Living, Natural and Processed Materials, Energy and Change and Earth and Beyond, as well as lots of investigative and observational skills.
• Due: Sunday 15th August
• Date: Monday 16th August (live on Sunday 15th)

September Carnival

• Theme: Maths, which isn’t just number!  There are also patterns, directions, shapes, measurement, data and probability to think about.
• Due: Wednesday 15th September
  
• Date: Monday 20th September

October Carnival

• Theme: Studies of Society and Environment.
• Due: Wednesday 13th October
  
• Date: Monday 18th October
  

November Carnival

• Theme: Technology and design – just in time for making Christmas presents
  
• Due: Wednesday 10th November
• Date: Monday 15th November

December  – no carnival, enjoy the Christmas break everyone!

Submission form: