Comment Challenge- Day 2: Comment Around the World

Day 2: Comment on a Blog You’ve Never Commented on Before

Many of us can get into the habit of commenting at the same blogs. But part of extending the conversation is bringing new people into it. Today’s task is simple. Leave a comment on a blog where you’ve never commented before. If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, do this at a few blogs. You may want to blog about the experience on your own blog. If you do, be sure to tag it with “comment08″

I subscribe to over 200 blogs and other various RSS feeds in my Google Reader. That is the place where I stay up to date with the newest posts of each feed as it is published, where I star and share posts that I want to get back to, highlight and pass on to others. Most of the time I read blog posts in my Google Reader. I only click my way through to the blog, when I want to leave a comment.

So, today’s challenge (Day 2) is to comment on (a) blog(s) you have never commented on before. This means I have to head out of the “comfort” zone of my Google Reader I am using the list of bloggers who have signed up to participate in the challenge on the wiki. My goal is to leave a comment on several new blogs while taking a trip around the world.

From the USA, I headed South to:

I hope it Works from Ronaldo Lima in Brazil

My first attempt at leaving a comment around the world, failed miserably. Somehow “it did not work” (Look at Ronaldo’s blog title) for me. I tried submitting several times, but was returned back to the initial pop up screen. I tried it in Firefox and Explorer. I am sorry, so I will leave you my comment here.

Ronaldo,
I have enjoyed lurking around your blog. You have some great ideas on integrating technology into world language classes. Definitely one of my favorite areas of interest.
This post about Customized Google Search caught my eye though and I wanted to point you to a post I recently wrote , when I set one up for our elementary school students. It will not be going live until next school year (August 08). I wanted to allow teachers to start adding sites to it during our summer break.
Looking forward to hearing more about your ideas.

Hopping over the Atlantic Ocean, I wanted to stop by in Africa, but did not see anyone on the list from that continent, so I continued on to Europe.

Learning Journey from Christine Costa in the United Kingdom

Christina was the first blogger that I have been reading about during this comment challenge who seems to have a natural knick at the commenting part. While most of us are struggling and have to create a challenge and a conscious effort to work at it, she writes:

Curious enough, online I hardly ever seem to go speechless! I use to joke that I ma comment compulsive. I am always looking for the comment link once I start reading a post.

Christina also has a function enabled on her blog, that allows to leave an audio comment. So, there was another first for me.

From England, I moved on to Asia and to How? What? from Bryan Lockwood in Japan

Very interesting conversation about the necessity for everyone, including administration to blog or not.

I headed South to Australia and stopped by More than just Knowing Stuff from Helen Otway in Melbourne, Australia

It looks like Helen is looking into interactive WhiteBoards, just like we are.

The way back towards the USA was a little long, but there still was time to make one last stop in Canada on The Classroom Queen by Kimberly Brown.

Kimberly’s blog name attracted me to click on her link. Who wouldn’t want to meet the Classroom Queen? After I read that she:

When I go through my Bloglines feeds I usually comment on half of the the blogs I read. I also comment on my partner teacher’s students blogs once a week.

I didn’t just want to meet the Classroom Queen, but I want to be like the Classroom Queen. Now I just need to have the adequate amount of servants to do all the stuff for me that the common “folks” do, so I can dedicate myself of being just a Commenting Queen…

PS. What have I learned today?

I had a good time commenting around the world. I need to take these trips more often. I also learned that it is good practice to copy your comment text to your clipboard (CTRL+C) BEFORE you hit submit. You never know what might happen and you do not want to have to rewrite that comment that took forever to formulate.

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