Let’s Comment

We have already discussed what quality comments look like and we created a set of guidelines for our class blog. You now need to write your own commenting guidelines for your own blog. Together, we will check out a post about commenting by Mrs Yollis and her students. She also shows us how to use HTML code.

Activity 1 – Commenting Guidelines

Write a post, create a video or create a poster about commenting. What sorts of comments do you want on your blog?

Activity 2 – Add a Reader Widget

Add a widget to find out where your readers are coming from. You can choose from clustrmaps, flag counter or feedjit. Or, you might know of a different option, so talk to me about it.

Activity 3 – Overseas Blog

Visit an overseas blog and leave them a comment (don’t forget to link back to your blog; you could also link to our class blog). Write a post on your blog about the overseas blog you commented on.

Activity 4 – Write your first post

You can either:

• Write a really interesting post that you think will get lots of comments. You might like to write about something you’re interesting in or about a controversial topic. End with a question so that readers can leave you a comment.
• Write a post asking questions about the country you mentioned in Activity 3. Have at least six questions in your post.

Activity 5 – Family Blogging

Have a family member write a post for you to add to your blog or ask them to comment on your blog or the class blog.

 

The Student Blogging Challenge page has a lot of examples that you might like to check out. The activities are numbered differently on the Student Blogging Challenge page, but if you scroll through, you’ll find the right ones.

You do not have to complete all of these activities (you can if you want!), but I would like to see a couple completed. Please comment on this blog post to let me know what activities you have completed. Don’t forget to have a look at each others’ blogs!

Have fun!

Miss Andrews 🙂