Day 30: How Can You Use What You’ve Learned about Commenting to Change Your Teaching Practices?
Now that we’re winding down in the Comment Challenge, it’s time for some reflection. For today’s task, I want you to consider what you’ve learned about the give and take of commenting and how it might apply in a classroom. [...]

Day 29: Write a Commenting Guide for Students
Most of the Challenge participants work in some kind of learning and education capacity, so today’s task from Silvia Tolisano is geared toward helping your students be better commenters. Silvia suggests writing an age-appropriate guide to commenting. What goes into it is up to you. How you [...]

Day 28: What’s Your Blog Commenting Strategy?
Yesterday we looked at how commenting can help us build our personal brand. Today, I want you to check out this article by Caroline Middlebrook on developing a blog commenting strategy. Do you think it’s important to take a more strategic view of commenting and to have a plan [...]

I just heard about an interesting experiment. Gene Weingarten, a Washington Post journalist, and Joshua Bell, a young man decided to test people in the Washington D.C. subway. Read the entire story in the article in the Washington Post
No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an [...]

Day 27: What Do You Communicate About Your Personal Brand Through Commenting?
Online personal branding is becoming a big deal. The more active we are on the web, the more we communicate about who we are and what we do. Many of us may have considered that our blogs are a way of communicating about [...]

I know that the Comment Challenge has concluded almost 3 weeks ago, but I also know that it was just impossible for me to work on and finish during that time due to it coinciding with the last days of our school year, post planning and summer camps.
I don’t like to leave things unfinished, so [...]

Day 24: Comment on a Blog Written in a Foreign Language
Today’s activity was suggested by both Sue Waters and Silvia Tolisano . Their idea is that we comment on a blog post in another language. For some of us, this may mean dusting off our foreign language skills from high school or college. If [...]

Day 23: What Makes a Great Comment?
Today’s task was suggested by Carolyn Foote and builds on yesterday’s analysis of your favorite comment(s). You’re going to write a post that describes the feature and characteristics of a great comment. If you were teaching someone to be a fabulous commenter, what tips would you give them?
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Day 21: Make a Recommendation
In our blog posts, we’ll often recommend another blog, a post or a resource that we’ve read, but we may not always do that in comments. For today’s task, courtesy of Shelley Krause , you’re going to make a recommendation for a resource in a blog comment. This can be a [...]

Day 20: Three Links Out
Here’s another activity from Christy Tucker .This task is based an idea by Dave Ferguson that he calls "Three Links Out " or "Three Clicks Out ." It’s a way to find and explore blogs that aren’t as familiar to you.

Go to one of the blogs you regularly read and follow [...]