BLOG@NY

Results and Prizes
Saturday, 5 November 2011

Hello,

We apologise for the late release of results as there was the EOYs and we were also busy.
The results are as follows:

Top Prizes

  • Clarissa
  • Wan Ting
Commendation Prizes
  • Shanice
  • Valerie
  • Hsi Chien
Consolation Prizes
  • Yu Ting
  • Veronike

We were unable to get prizes from sponsors and so, our group contributed our own items as the prizes(:
We hope the participants are fine with this and we thank you all for your participation and support.
We have gone to the classes of the participants to give your prizes or personally handed them to you.

Blog@NY acknowledges that our competition had a lot of problems and was not perfectly well-planned.
We apologise for any unhappiness and discrepancies.
Once again, we sincerely thank you all! :D

blog@ny

Voting!
Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Vote for the blog you like the best! The most interesting and refreshing one!

Which blog do you vote for?(:
Clarissa
shagreat
HC
Veronike
Yu Ting
Wan Ting
Valerie

Results

Voting ends 4 September(:

Judging
Monday, 15 August 2011

Hi there participants of BLOG@NY!

We will judge your blogs at the end of this competition - 24 August, Wednesday.
(as in the organisers, us - an LA SIA group from 308)
Our rubrics is out of 60 marks. (this will be converted to 50%)
The following is the criteria which we will grade you on:
  • Content (20 marks) (unique topics, refreshing and engaging blog posts, attractive to readers, content reflects blogger's personality well)
  • Language (20 marks) (proficiency in language, personal voice, character shown through words, self-expression)
  • Creativity (14 marks): 
    • Blog Design (creative and aesthetically-pleasing blog design, user friendly and clean layout, good effort put in)
    • Media (wide range of media used, attracts and engages readers through creative and interesting use of media)
  • Bonus marks (6 marks) for the more number of posts!
Our judging will make up 50% while votes from NY students and teachers contribute to the rest of the 50% of your total score.
The bloggers with the top scores will win(;

Blog on and continue to enjoy! :D

blog@ny

Participants' Blogs
Thursday, 11 August 2011

As some people may not visit the last tab, the star icon ★, we are posting the list of participant's blogs who have signed up so far for the viewing pleasure of fellow NY-ers(:
So here they are!
(click on the participant's name to visit her blog)

Enjoy reading their blogs and gaining a slice of insight into your schoolmates' lifes.
Thanks again to one and all who have gamely joined our blogging competition(:


(note: Some people have asked to use screen names to preserve their anonymity. However, they have submitted their real names to the organisers. We will keep them anonymous when linking them on our blog but if they are one of the prizewinners in the end, we will have to reveal their identity when they receive their prizes on stage.)

Getting Things Going!


Hello everyone!

Thanks to all who have registered for our competition!! :D
Registration will be coming to an end soon - we have actually extended it to today night (Thursday, 11 August, 11pm).
But if there are still more people wanting to join within the next few days, we will still accept(:
So, all you bloggers in NY out there who are interested...hurry up and register now!

Please spread the message on our competition to all your friends - either for interested ones to join ASAP or just for more people to visit our competition blog and have fun reading the participants' blogs!

We will also be announcing the prizes soon yay(:

Stay tuned to our competition by looking out for updates on this blog!
Thanks and spread the word around.
Keep blogging on and have fun! :D

blog@ny

Ready, Set, Go!
Wednesday, 27 July 2011

The competition is NOW OPEN!
Register now(:

A Courageous Start!
Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Hi everyone!
We will be starting our competition tomorrow!
We will announce BLOG@NY during morning assembly and begin our publicity.
Look out for posters around the school and our LMS announcement(:

We look forward to your enthusiastic participation and support :D
Thank you!

blog@ny