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31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 2 - 4
Day 2: Comment on a Blog You’ve Never Commented on Before
It was not difficult for me to comment on a blog that I hadn’t commented on before because I had hardly left any comments.
The first blog I visited was one of the participants of the 31 Day Comment Challenge - Kate Foy. Her blog Spinning a Learning Web she left a video comment encouraging all the participants of the challenge us to make the most of the opportunities opened to us this month.
Day 3: Sign up for a Comment Tracking Service
On Day 3 we were encouraged to join a comment tracking service. I decided to follow Sue Waters suggestion and sign up in coComment.
After joining coComment I read and commented on more Bog posts.
A blog caught my attention was Learning Curve and there were two posts in particular that I read and commented on as I believed the discussion in both of these posts could impact on my teaching. Firstly using music to enhance the students’ learning environment and the importance of teaching keyboarding skills.
Day 4: Ask a Question in a Blog Comment
From the challenge Wikispace :While many of us ask questions in our own blog posts, we may not tend to ask questions when we comment on other blogs. Yet this can be one of the best ways to engage the blogger and other commenters in further discussion.
I decided to visit another participant’s blog and I founf a post about the new SMART Notebook 10 software on a blog called Thinking Past the Square.
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Hi Jane
thanks for your kind words. That little video has really attracted some attention. I’m going to launch an idea in the next day or so with a fellow comment challengee and will blog all about it on Spinning a Learning Web.
Isn’t this fun
Hi Jane,
I find the day four challenge very easy. Nearly every time I go to Edublogger, I finish my comment with a question for Sue Waters to answer. Or when I visit a student’s blog, I often ask a question to carry the conversation on.
For some reason I’m having trouble posting to your blog. Weird error. So am now using IE without cocomment to see what happens.
Sorry but we forgot to do the Feedburner yesterday (lets try at BarCamp). Meanwhile the good news is technorati is finding your posts.
Kate’s video is excellent and it appears she has set up a group on Flickr (hope people also add photos of themselves).
Sue - I agree you are very good at asking questions which I really love because it makes me think.
Hi Jane
so far for me one of the best things about the challenge is finding new bloggers 
One of the trickiest is commenting on a blog that I’ve only read one or two posts on. The idea of using questions in that situation is one way to make it easier I think.
I was just wondering, you use rss to follow blogs or do you prefer to bookmark and re-visit?
Hi Jane
Unlike Sue I find asking questions quite difficult. Everyone always sounds very knowledgeable and explain themselves well so I guess I will need to follow your links to see your thoughts on the SMART Notebooks. So a question for you and Sue. Do you teach keyboarding skills and if yes which age group do you think this is appropriate for?
@Sue - that would be great if we could do feedburner on Saturday.Thanks for helping set up Google Reader.
@LindaH - I have just started to use Rss - because I joined the challenge. Before I would just revisit the blogs I thought would have interesting new posts but now I use RSS as well. Over time this may swing more to just using RSS. Time will tell.
@Barb I agree with how you fell and I think that’s why I didn’t comment much before this challenge. As far as keyboarding skills go I have a link to Dance Mat typing on my class blog page that I encourage the students to use. I would like to have time to include a couple of short sessions each week at school but computer lab time is limited . From my reading it seems that around year 3/4 seems to be the time suggested to introduce the kids to keyboarding skills. What do you think?
Year 3/4 sounds about right. I usually encourage the children to use both hands on the keyboard and to spread fingers over the keyboard. Mind you, not ever having done typing, I’m no role model. Do you think Dance Mat tying is helpful?
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