An exciting thing happened over the weekend. I got a comment on this blog, and a few of you got comments on your blogs, from Ms. W, a teacher in Tasmania!!!!! How cool is that? I also left comments on all of your blogs 
One thing that makes blogging different from other types of writing is that blogs are (usually) interactive. We publish online and share our thoughts and ideas with anyone in the world who discovers our blog. One way to get people to visit your blog and leave comments for you is to comment on the blogs of others. What I would like you to do today is leave a comment on someone else’s blog. Many of you have already left a comment on a friends’ blog. Today you will leave a comment on someone’s blog (in our group) that you have not yet visited. You can also visit Ms. W’s blog, follow the links to her students’ blogs (under “students 2008″ on the left-hand sidebar) and leave a comment for one of her students.
When leaving comments remember to:
•Be polite. Think about how you would feel if you received an unkind comment. Use respectful language and share something positive.
•Comment on something the person has posted on their blog. Answer or ask a question. Continue the conversation. Try to go beyond the obvious, “Hi. I like your blog.” This is a great opportunity to connect with someone else, maybe someone in another part of the world.
•Leave a link to your blog and ask them to visit your blog, too.
4 responses so far ↓
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Sue Wyatt
// Apr 5, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for mentioning us in your post. Some of the students have been into our blog and my students’ blogs to leave comments. It is such an easy way to keep a conversation going. At present I am including the images as I am trying to make sure the students understand they can’t just copy any picture from the web. I am always trying to use flickr cc – which is the creative commons version.
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azrunner
// May 16, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hi!
I love your guidelines for posting on blogs…I’ll be sure to share those with the teachers I work with!
Thanks,
Adam
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Blogging
// Nov 30, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I don’t know. The percentage of comments on my blogs that are not from humans is simply amazing. I feel the recent anti-spam tools are good, but it’s still amazing how much comes through for my review – which I then toss out. I appreciate your guidelines, but wonder about the future of blogging and comments in general. There are some big problems with blogging. And nofollow didn’t seem to fix them…
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Andrea H.
// Dec 2, 2008 at 6:16 am
I guess I’ve been lucky. I have blogs here on edublogs as well as a blog on blogger, and although I get the occasional spam comment, it happens rarely. I wonder if it is because your blog is self hosted? What a pain, though! I know that when I do get the occasional spam comment, I find it annoying and ridiculous. Do spammers really think that by leaving a nonsense comment and link on your blog that you are going to click there and then spend money?
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