Wednesday October 15th is Blog Action Day.
The website explains the purpose of Blog Action Day:
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion
This global event first took place in 2007, when bloggers from all over the world were asked to unite on the topic of ‘The Environment’. The global groundswell of ideas and imagination got the attention of the United Nations Environmental Programme, the European Union Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas, and received international press coverage.
Take your time to explore the website in full.
- Download a banner for your blog. You just need to copy the embed code, click to the html tab and paste the code in. Sue Waters explains the technical side of things on her blog.
- Read the post ideas if you’re looking for inspiration.
- Follow the links to the web resource links
- And don’t forget to register your blog
In opening this task up to you, my students, I wanted to ensure that I supplied some empowering resources to generate your thoughts. It can be very easy to get down in the dumps about poverty, to think to yourself ‘but I’m one person, what can I do?’ Don’t let the issue get you down – do something instead!
Here are some examples of inspiring ways of approaching this issue and posting your ideas:
- Find out exactly how Free Rice works: site sponsors donate money to the UN World Food program every time you get a question right.
- Read about the 11 and 12 year old students in New Zealand raising money for the Kiwis for Kenya movement. These are schoolkids just like you!
- Read the inspirational story of 11 year old Laura Stockman, and the projects her ideas have generated on the Working Together to Make a Difference social network of educators
- Join the Oxfam In My Name movement to work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals
- Get involved in the massively multiplayer online game Superstruct and devise ideas to address future problems.
- Watch The Girl Effect. I have embedded the video below. If that doesn’t work at school, follow the link to the main site.
Why is this issue important? Because if we don’t address poverty, life will remain essentially unfair for so many people on our planet. Read about the teacher at a school in Nepal that Anne Mirtschin, a Victorian teacher, connected with.
Blog Action Day: what is your opinion?
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