Agreement... Argument... Rebuttal... Support... Opinion... all aspects of writing that we have our students accomplish every year. But when it comes to blogging we can provide to students with genuine experiences that are not coming out of a book. We must teach and continue to promote proper commenting on bogs to ensure this skill keeps blogs alive and more interesting for everyone.
- It is important that students realize that these activities are no different that any other writing assignment and grammar, spelling, and content will be graded.
- Any comment not meeting predetermined standards will be declined from being published. In the beginning there will be students writing "that was cool" or "Hi teacher" ect... But as you begin to teach the students what makes a good comment and the quality of the blog begins to promote open ended questions, opinions, or argument you will see a vast improvement.
- This process takes time and takes a dedicated teacher to go through all the comments, to add feedback, and to be patient as students go through this trial and error process.
- This link is to classroom 2.0... this is a open discussion from educators on how to perfect this process. There is no perfect science to get children to comment perfectly but neither is teaching a child to write. What this blog does is help support each other, share successes, failures, and good techniques to make this process more beneficial for both the teacher and learner. Ps. The comments left are examples of good posts.
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