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December 25, 2011 Uncategorized 24 Comments

As a follow up to the series Stepping it Up: Learning About Blogs FOR your Students, I would like to crowdsource more samples of blog posts and comments for teachers to practice recognizing, evaluating and assessing various levels of quality work.

A meme might be a good way to get the ball rolling.

Wikipedia defines a Meme as:

A meme  is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.” A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.

Quality Blogging and Commenting Audit Meme

In order to gather more audit samples from a large variety of age groups and authors, I challenge you to publish a blog post with a post or comment audit.

  1. Select a blog post or blog comment to audit (Professional or Student)
  2. Take a screenshot or copy and past the post or comment into your blog post (be sensitive whether you want to reveal any names or references)
  3. Include or link to the rubric you use to assess the quality of post or comment
  4. Audit the post or comment by describing your train of thought regarding the level of quality you would assess your chosen post or comment
  5. Suggest how you would coach the author of audited post or comment to improve
  6. Tag (at least) three educators and challenge them to audit a post or comment
  7. Leave a comment with the link to your audit post on Langwitches

If you have not been tagged, please feel free to jump in, write and link your own audit blog post.

I am tagging Andrea Hernandez, Maggie Hos-McGrane, Nancy von Wahlde, Edna Sackson, Linda Yollis, Kathleen Morris, Kim Cofino

Looking forward to their quality blogging audits

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  1. Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) says:
    25. December, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    Quality Blogging&Commenting Audit Meme- http://t.co/qTCwuRmk @kimcofino @edtechworkshop @nancyvonw @kathleen_morris @lindayollis @whatedsaid

  2. paulinobrener.com (@paulinobrener) says:
    25. December, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme: As a follow up to the series Stepping it Up: Learning About Blogs FOR … http://t.co/EuDJ7kVv

  3. Miriam Ramos-Warth (@ramoswarth) says:
    26. December, 2011 at 2:51 am

    Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme: As a follow up to the series Stepping it Up: Learning About Blogs FOR … http://t.co/v9uS2b5D

  4. Antón García (@agurrodri) says:
    26. December, 2011 at 3:52 am

    Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme http://t.co/dq8ss6KG via @zite

  5. Tom Whitby (@tomwhitby) says:
    26. December, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme http://t.co/jTiGVYPT #Edchat

  6. Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) says:
    26. December, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    Looking for educators to SHARE audits of QUALITY blogging and comments- Directions here http://t.co/qTCwuRmk

  7. Quality Blogging and Commenting Meme | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom says:
    26. December, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    [...] Silvia’s latest post, she is requesting more samples of blog posts and comments for teachers to practice recognizing, [...]

  8. Kathleen Morris says:
    26. December, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Hi Silvia,

    Thanks for inviting me to take part in this. I was going to take a little Christmas/New Year break from blogging but I was too excited to not write about this subject.

    Here is my post

    http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/12/27/quality-blogging-and-commenting-meme/

    I decided just to evaluate comments as I thought I wouldn’t be able to evaluate student posts without identifying them.

    There was a particular point that I was glad I had the chance to write about, “higher quality comments and posts do not automatically come with age.” I think many teachers in the upper levels mistakenly think their students know how to write well.

    I have found

    explicit teaching + high expectations + regular feedback + authentic motivation = quality writing… no matter what the age.

    Of course there is the other school of thought (that you have probably come across) that students should be able to write whatever they like on blogs as they are expressing themselves. I disagree with that. It is our job to teach them, and having students use the same mistakes over and over again isn’t going to help them improve their literacy skills. I am all for students expressing themselves but I don’t feel that needs to be exclusive from high expectations for writing.

    Thanks again, Silvia for this excellent guide to blogging!

    Kath
    Kathleen Morris recently posted..Quality Blogging and Commenting Meme

  9. Teaching and Assessing Quality Comment | The Learning Journey says:
    27. December, 2011 at 2:44 am

    [...] to write their own evaluation on blog posts of comments, and I highly recommend you visit the Langwitches Blog for more [...]

  10. Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) says:
    27. December, 2011 at 8:53 am

    @katetodd777 Looking forward 2ur blog audit. If we can good audit smpls together(all levels)..will only benefit others- http://t.co/qTCwuRmk

  11. Andrea Hernandez says:
    28. December, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    Great meme, Silvia! I wish I had the time right now to audit several more posts and comments because it was a truly valuable exercise. But I’ve decided to err on the side of actually publishing my post before next year. Thank goodness for you or my brain might turn to mush over the break ;)

    http://edtechworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-is-quality-in-blog-post-or-comment.html
    Andrea Hernandez recently posted..What is Quality (in a Blog Post or Comment)?

  12. Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) says:
    28. December, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme- http://t.co/qTCwuRmk @mscofino

  13. Stef Galvin says:
    29. December, 2011 at 7:17 am

    Hi Silvia,

    What a great idea for a meme – and very timely for me, having just finished my first classroom blog. Kathleen Morris tagged me in her reflective post, and through her I found your blogging series and this great opportunity to reflect on my blogging experience.

    You can find my post here: http://sgalvin.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/12/27/teaching-and-assessing-quality-comment/

    Thanks again,
    Stef
    Stef Galvin recently posted..Teaching and Assessing Quality Comments

  14. Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) says:
    29. December, 2011 at 8:27 am

    Looking for more contributors to define Quality Blogging Assessment by adding your blog post or comment audit- bit.ly/toHZAU

  15. Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) says:
    29. December, 2011 at 9:52 am

    @Grade1 Would u b interested in contributing 2Quality Blogging &Commenting Audit?- http://t.co/qTCwuRmk Wld b gr8 to have 1st grade level

  16. Sheri Edwards (@grammasheri) says:
    29. December, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme: http://t.co/VjJOLjbz

  17. Sheri Edwards says:
    29. December, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    Thanks for this opportunity to guide myself and my students into self-assessment of our online blogging and commenting.

    I’ve added to the meme here:

    What Else Audit Meme Post
    Sheri Edwards recently posted..Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme

  18. Quality meme -Miss W. and her Smartboard says:
    29. December, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    [...] the last week or so, a meme has been circulating about  quality blogging and commenting. Silvia from the Langwitches blog asked Kathleen Morris to continue the meme and hence it came to [...]

  19. Miss W. says:
    29. December, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    Hi Silvia,
    This was a great chance to reflect back on my journey in blogging and how my teaching changed from having my own class for most lessons to what it is now.

    I feel having lots of different classes for one period a week with no backup from other staff makes it very difficult to expect quality comments and posts from everyone.

    But for those students who are most keen, you can see an improvement in both their posts and comments.

    Thanks again,
    Sue Wyatt aka Miss W aka @tasteach
    Miss W. recently posted..Quality meme

  20. Tracy Watanabe says:
    2. January, 2012 at 12:29 am

    Dear Silvia,

    I want to thank you for posting this entire series about blogging FOR your students, concluding with this meme. As a result of writing my meme, I ended up creating a few things that would help some classrooms I work with. I also grappled with how to improve some of the comments I write. More importantly, I thought about the impact of these meme posts and the powerful collective voice they have. I am truly inspired by this and thank you for making a difference.

    Kind regards,
    Tracy Watanabe
    Tracy Watanabe recently posted..Quality Blogging and Commenting Audit Meme

  21. Kathryn says:
    3. January, 2012 at 1:42 am

    Dear Sylvia

    I was honoured to be tagged by Tracy Wantanabe to continue with the meme and examine my approach to commenting or posting. Thank you for thinking of the idea, as Tracy notes it is already building a powerful collective voice.

    I chose to look at commenting – we are on summer holidays in New Zealand and so chose what I thought might be the simpler of the two for me!

    Here is Quality Commenting and Posting Meme

    Kind regards
    Kathryn Trask
    Kathryn recently posted..Quality Commenting Audit Meme

  22. Stephanie Teitelbaum says:
    16. January, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    Great learning experience. Here is my post: http://martingottliebdayschool.ning.com/profiles/blogs/reflection-or-audit-of-a-blog-post-for-silvia-s-meme

  23. Shauna Hamman says:
    17. January, 2012 at 11:01 pm

    Dear Sylvia,

    We were also tagged by Tracy Watanabe. My fifth graders have learned a great deal through the process of auditing their comments—thank you! Here is our blog post:
    http://blogs.goaj.org/mrshamman/2012/01/17/commenting-check-up/

    Sincerely,

    Shauna Hamman
    Shauna Hamman recently posted..Commenting Check-up

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