Day 7: Comment Challenge-Reflect on What You’ve Learned so Far
It has been a week? Today is Day 7 and we are to summarize what we have learned about commenting.
We’re on Day 7 of the comment challenge and it’s time to take a little break to see what you’ve learned. So far you’ve audited your own commenting behavior, commented on a new blog, installed a blog tracking service, asked a question in a comment, commented on a post you didn’t agree with and responded to another commenter on a blog post.
For today’s task, I want you to come up with three lessons you’ve learned from your experiences so far. Consider what you’ve learned about yourself as a commenter, what you’ve learned about the act of commenting, and how you think your recent commenting activities have impacted you as commenter and a blogger. These don’t have to be major sweeping lessons. They can be as simple as “I’ve learned that I don’t comment as often as I’d like.” The point is to reflect on what you’ve been doing in the past week and to consider how you want to use this information to improve your conversational abilities in the blogosphere. If you blog your lessons, be sure to tag them with the “comment08″ tag.
I decided to follow Dogtrax’s example from Kevin’s Meandering mind and create a short video clip with my reflections. First time for me uploading a video to Flickr . The embed code works beautifully on this WordPress blog.
Links to blogs fromt the video clip:
Flickr/langwitches
Linkedin/langwitches
Twitter/langwitches
YouTube/langwitches
Del.icio.us/langwitches
Blog/Langwitches
May 8th, 2008 at 1:11 am
You’re going to tell us how you made that, yes please?
May 8th, 2008 at 7:11 am
@Greg-
The video was created in iMovie08 on my Macbook.
Took screenshots of the blogs I had visited, imported them into iMovie, inserted transitions, overlayed and inserted text, exported the movie into a mp4 format, then uploaded to my Flickr account. Last step was to embed the code into the blog.
You can do the same with Windows Moviemaker on a PC. Each program just has a little different selection of transitions and text options.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Now that’s classy, even a bit Web 2.0-ish.
My kids would think that’s sweet.
They’d be stoked!
Ka kite
May 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Ok, I guess I really do need to learn how to use iMovie, and perhaps the Final Cut Express I have sitting on my computer. I found the tour of webpages engaging. I saw many I had visited and became curious about the ones I hadn’t.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:31 am
@Christine-
I “forced” myself to dive into iMovie when I created the K12 Online Conference presentation last October. Pick a project and roll with it. I would like to get Final Cut eventually, since I heard great things about it.
I will add a list of links to the mentioned sites. Thanks for reminding me to do that.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:33 am
HI,
First off thanks for mentioning my blog, secondly thanks for reminding me that blogs need not always be so text based. We often tell our student to remember to use a variety of media, but most adult edu-bloggers stick w/ text.
I want to work on a video post in the coming week, so stop by to see. Thanks for the inspiration.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Did I forget to post a comment?
I loved the video.
Thanks for the links below (as someone else mentioned) and it reminds me that I should be doing the same, right?
Kevin