Quails In The Classroom (part 2)

Background Information

After having read an email from a high school teacher who had hatched quail eggs at school (see Quails In The Classroom part 1), I was inspired. I had an epiphany. Even though I am not a "science teacher" does mean that I cannot teach so, I decided that the time was right for me to bring my quail into the classroom.

A couple weeks earlier, my english teacher had assigned us a speech project. It was not too complicated Basically we all had to write speech, memorize it and them recite it infront of a live audience AKA my English class. My English teacher was pretty open on what we could do our speech on however, she strongly advised we chose a topic that we knew a lot about. Now what do I know about? Thats right: quail and quail blogging.

The date for my speech presentation was Thursday May3rd 2013 which also happened to be three days after the due date for our baby quail chicks. This meant that I would not only preform a speech about quail and quail blogging but I would also be bringing some  props to aid my performance mark. Long story short on Thursday May 3rd, I, The Quail Lady brought three of my twelve baby quail chicks into my English classroom.

Quails In The Classroom:

pictures that tell a story

brought to you by: ilovemyquail.blogspot.ca

A big school for a small quail.

Caring hands hold the babies. 

Sleeping during class!

Maybe I need a smaller desk...

What page did you say?

This one?

Where did everybody go?

Hmm... where is the teacher?

Students are quail lovers.

Fascination.

Education.

Love.

Care.

ilovemyquail

I Love My Quail
(my speech for English (if you would like a translation into quail just let me know))

Raise your hand if you own a pet. Now, keep your hand up if you own a pet quail. As you may have already guessed, I am a quail owner and today I am going to share with you my experiences with quail and quail blogging. If you own or have ever owned a pet you are probably familiar with the three basic laws of pet owning. Number one, all must feed their pet. Number two, all must clean up after their pet and most importantly number three, all must love their pet. As a licensed quail owner and blogger, I follow all three of these laws however; some may say I took law number three a bit too far.                                                                                                                                                                                                       Ilovemyquail was born on July 6th 2012 at exactly 6:39pm. If you think about all of the popular youtube videos and websites circulating the World Wide Web today you will realize that they all have one important factor in common; they did not become famous overnight. Like most revolutionary blogs Ilovemyquail started out slow. Really slow, and the worst part about it was not the fact that I was getting one to two views per day, it was that 90% of ilovemyquail’s viewers were related to me. Luckily this era did not last long and things did not get worse. They got better, a lot better. July 30th 2012 was probably the turning point for ilovemyquail because on that day ilovemyquail made a public announcement that stated that the baby quail chicks had hatched. After that birth announcement there was a spike in the views and many more historical posts to follow such as the 2012 Quail Olympics, Chicken Egg vs Quail Egg; Nutrition Facts (the truth), Global Quail Friendship Day and finally the series of 5 Days Before Christmas. These posts did not only generate hundreds of Canadian viewers but also reached out to quail lovers across the globe. For those of you who are remain unfamiliar with ilovemyquail and it’s life purpose, it is basically a blog about how to love and care for your urban quail.

              According to Google A blog can be defined as a Web sight on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.  Being a quote and quote blogger is not easy but it does have its benefits. Maintaining a (good) blog requires not only day-to-day effort and dedication but also requires a fair amount of your time. On the plus side, creating your own blog is free and it only takes a couple minutes however, generating revenue and more importantly finding your audience can take years. In order to become a success in the blogosphere there are three crucial questions you must keep in mind at all times. What is the purpose of my blog? How can I make my blog unique from other blogs? And am I one hundred and ten percent committed to my blog? Sadly, I do not generate any revenue through ilovemyquail but did you know that the average person can make up to 1700$ though advertisements on their blog? Now, why do we blog? Recent studies have shown that only 5% of us blog because we want to make money or because blogging is our job. Therefore, 95% of us blog because we feel passionate about something and we want to share it with the world. And what do we blog about? Literally everything, from art to zombies.

          In all, quail blogging is part of my life and it defines me as a person. Blogging has helped me realize my passion for writing not only for myself but also, for others as well. If you want to learn more and become a quail lover today please feel free to visit ilovemyquail.blogspot.ca.