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 [...]

So, I was able to stay on track daily with the Comment Challenge half way through the month of May. Then the final days of school, with millions of other typical "final days of school stuff" happened… and I dropped the ball. Since learning these days can take place asynchronous meaning anytime and anywhere, I [...]

Day 15: Give a Comment Award
At Scott McLeod’s suggestion , for today’s task, you’re going to give out a "Comment Award" to your favorite commenter (or commenters), recognizing them for their contributions to conversation in the blogosphere. You decide the parameters for your award–is it the quality of their comments? Or the questions they ask? [...]

Day 18: Analyze the Comments on Your Own Blog
Today’s activity is from Christy Tucker .In this task, you will conduct another self-audit on your blog. This time, the focus is on which posts generate conversations. If you can determine what made those past posts good conversation starters, maybe you can incorporate those features [...]

Challenge #14 of the 31-Day Comment Challenge will be a first for me.
I am to turn my blog over to the readers. Ask a question and have YOU , the reader write the post through the comments.
I am in the process of developing a "How to Guide for Digital Storytelling for Educators ". See [...]

Day 13: Write a Blog Post Using Comments
From what I’ve seen so far, during the past two weeks, most of us have expanded our commenting awareness in some amazing ways. We’ve discovered new blogs and are interacting more than we might have in the past, which is one of the great things that happens when [...]

Day 11: Write a Blog Comment Policy
As a blogger, you’re responsible for the overall tone of your blog and the comments that are left there. Like a party host, you create a particular kind of atmosphere on your blog and when it comes to commenting, having a comment policy is the best way for you [...]

Well, it looks like I have Day 9 and Day 10 of the Comment Challenge mixed up. As life happens, I have not had as much time to devote to the challenge as the days are flying by. I am trying to work backwards, having done Day 10 earlier and now moving on to the [...]

Day 10: Do a Comment Audit on Your Own Blog
So far in the challenge, we’ve been focusing on making comments. But most of us are also bloggers and we need to consider what we’re doing to invite conversations on our own blogs. Are we doing all that we can to build a sense of community [...]