#blideo - a new blogging challenge

As something that started out simply as a bit of fun between a few Twitter friends, the #blimage challenge has been a surprising success. For the many people who have participated to date, it has been an exercise in creative thinking, and an experience of extending social connections within their personal learning networks. Check out the #blimage hashtag and you'll see what I mean. The challenge was simple - you shared an image with a friend (or three) and challenged them to write a short, learning related blog about it. They then posted their contribution along with another image, and challenged a few more people within their social network. Blog + image became #blimage.

Those who have participated in #blimage have reported that their visitor traffic has increased, their writing has improved, and they have engaged in a little additional creativity. Essentially, they have become more enthused about the practice of sharing their ideas within their community. Some have returned to blogging after a long time away, and others have been encouraged to blog for the very first time. Interestingly, several have also told me that they have discovered new bloggers they never knew existed, and are enjoying reading their work. Clearly, this approach has many applications for schools, colleges and universities. Many of the blog posts from the challenge can be found here on the #blimage list.

So let's start a new challenge.

This time it's not an image - more like a series of images. In fact it's a video. Let's call it #blideo. Yep, you know the rest. Same guidelines apply. You share a short video clip on your blog and challenge 3 people in your personal learning network to write learning related blog posts about it. When they post their response, they include another short video clip of their choice and challenge 3 other people within their network... and so on. Are you up for the challenge? Don't forget to tag your post with #blideo.

Here's a video clip to get you started...



Photo by Phil Roeder on Wikimedia Commons


#blideo - a new blogging challenge by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.