Challenge – week 2
Looking through many of your first posts about what you want to get out of this challenge, most of you mentioned cyber conversations with other students around the world. But how can you do that?
Consider that at the beginning of 2008, there were over 70 million blogs in the world. How is someone going to find yours? I asked a similar question when I started blogging in this post. Why is nobody commenting? What were some of the tips teachers and my readers gave me about getting comments?
Now check out this post by Priscila in Argentina about how blogging has given her a world wide audience. Check out Abbey’s blogging story and the changes she has made since November 2008 when she began blogging.
This week’s challenges
1. Write a post or even a page about commenting on your blog. What sort of comments will you accept? Do you have to leave a name with a URL? Are your comments moderated? Explain what this means. Will you accept critical comments about your spelling and grammar etc?
Mr Toft has written something on his blog about commenting guidelines to help give you an idea.
Our students from Thailand have already set blogging and commenting guidelines at their school.
2. Visit at least 5 blogs from the participant list and leave appropriate comments. Keep a record of what you said in a word document or discuss the comments you left in a post. Think about what you would like as comments on your blog before you write these. We will be looking at these again at the end of the challenge to see how you have improved with your commenting.
Remember you can see what all the participants have written in their posts by visiting this page and clicking on the link. Choose a post you would be interested in to leave a comment on.
3. Add a clustrmap to your blog sidebar. Check here if using Edublogs. Go to enhancing your blog with widgets.
4. Add another widget that shows your global audience. It might be like the flag one on my classblog or if you are over 13, you could add the feedjit map as well. Maybe you also need a translator widget to help our non English speaking readers to translate your posts. Check what other classes have as widgets to help their global audience.
September 14, 2009 @ 11:16 am
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September 15, 2009 @ 2:47 am
Miss Wyatt, How do I add flag counter to my blog? Thanks.
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Miss W. Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I left a reply on your blog, Kira.
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September 29th, 2009 at 1:57 am
how do I add a something to my sourse code in edublogs.
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September 15, 2009 @ 9:30 am
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September 15, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
I did the comment post on my blog. It’s kind of boring because it’s grown up stuff.
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September 16, 2009 @ 11:39 am
hi sick story
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September 17, 2009 @ 2:00 am
We have visited 5 blogs and left a comment on each one! Our class divided up into blogging “teams” and we viewed one class blog per team. We then met to discuss what we saw and generated an appropriate comment to go with one post.
We love the challenges!
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Miss W. Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Keep up the good work and soon your students will be wanting their own blogs. In my class, at the beginning of the year, I teach about being internet savvy, then create individual blogs for about 5 students, once they have visited other blogs and written posts for the class blog. These five students then become the teachers when other students get their blogs.
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September 17, 2009 @ 5:03 am
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September 17, 2009 @ 5:07 am
Hi Ms. Wyatt,
Thanks again for organizing this. This is my 3rd year of having a class blog and I’ve never seen so much traffic and worthwhile comments appear so quickly! My students having only been using blogs for two weeks now and already every single students has received at least one comment from someone from another country. This has really motivated my students to read a write more often. Talk about real world learning!
It’s flattering to see you link to our blog in the first two challenges. Your post inspired me to dust off the Welcome page. I’ve added some information about what types of comments I’ll publish on our class site.
Mr. Toft
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September 17, 2009 @ 10:04 am
Very very good blog I can see you have lots of people on your blob from around the world
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September 18, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
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September 23, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
Great things are happening with my class blog. However, the students wanted a cluster map which i initially organised – but I have removed it because of the ads which appear – they are very inappropriate . Is there a way around this?
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September 25, 2009 @ 7:31 am
ya thats cool
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September 28, 2009 @ 5:47 am
Thanks for organizing this. I’m sure it’s a lot of work. We’re behind and not doing 100% of the challenges, but we’re certainly enjoying the process.
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September 30, 2009 @ 9:26 am
how do i add a flag to my widget and how do i find people from around the world?
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October 19, 2009 @ 6:41 pm
My cluster map doesn’t work can I use flag counter instead?
Eagle 23
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