Quality Commenting- Student Guest Post by Zoe M.
I invite few guest bloggers to share posts on Langwitches.
This makes it especially rewarding to be able to present to my readers an incredible young lady. Zoe is growing by leaps and bounds as a blog writer and commenter. She is a fourth grader at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School and is taking part in an International Action Research currently underway between four blogging classrooms (USA,Thailand, Switzerland, Czech Republic). The following post is a wonderful testimonial to her understanding of blog commenting as a form of communication and learning.
I am honored to be able to share Zoe’s post, since I believe many, including grown-up blogging newbies, will benefit from her advice.
When you comment on my blog I want your comments to be memorable. I want them to represent you, so even if I don’t know you, I will feel as if I do.When you comment on a blog you want it to be unique. To make it a quality comment it has to have fancy words such as instead of writing, “That is a pretty butterfly.”which is what 1st graders could do ,write” What a lovely butterfly! I love how its wings are all sparkly. I would enjoy it if you could teach me how. Did you know that a butterfly’s wing is its most fragile part?” That already is a better comment. To make a comment better, add on to the post, writing a new bit of information, it makes it a quality comment. Also, links help, if you find a website that has something to do with the topic someone is blogging about, put the link. Here is how you put a link on your blog:
<a href=”link”>words you want to be the link</a>
That is how you make a quality comment.
Hi, my name is Candace Buzbee and I am a student in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. I really enjoyed reading this post! When I started my EDM310 class, it was the first time I had ever blogged or commented on another persons blog. I did not really do a whole lot at first, but lately I have been really been commenting and blogging more and more. Reading what Zoe had to say about commenting makes me even more determined to write the best comments and blogs that I can. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Candace
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Dear Silvia,
Thanks so much for your blog post on quality commenting. The students in my class have been working on creating quality blog posts and comments so this was really timely. I was inspired by Zoe’s post and think it will really help my students. I’ve referred to your post and Zoe’s suggestions on my class blog: http://inside.isb.ac.th/cterry/2012/03/25/quality-comments/
We’re also hoping to work with Stacie Mehorn’s class, and I hope that her students can be blogging mentors for my class after all the learning in your quadblogging project.
My name is Linda Garscha and I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I am studying to be an elementary school teacher. I am in a class called EDM 310 this semester, which teaches me how to use technology in the classroom.
I really enjoyed ready this post because I agree with Zoe that comments need to be memorable to the person who receives them. I unfortunately never blogged until entering EDM and it has been a great learning experience to read and comment on so many different topics around the world.
Sincerely
Linda
@teachandgolf I use this great one from @langwitches – http://t.co/Kc2yLVxe It’s on her blog, along w/this – http://t.co/HcbGvzd7 ????
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