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Andrew Pass Educational Servic · 3 years ago

First, thanks for your insightful post. When I was a grad. student it was often very difficult for me to limit my comments during class discussions. I always like to share my ideas. The wonderful thing about commenting on blogs is that I can speak out as often as I want. I'm not sure why I have this need, but blogs enable me to fill it. Hopefully I'm also saying interesting things and simultaneously pointing people towards my own blog. Since, I've noticed that people sometimes reference my comments on their own blogs, it both makes me feel great and encourages me to keep writing. Now that I know about tracking comments, I'll be able to follow my own comments.

Thanks.

Andrew Pass
http://www.Pass-Ed.com/blogger.html

Just a thought.

Langwitches · 3 years ago

I admire your ability of pointing out (by blogging) little things that others don't take the time to mention

After reading your post about "commenting", it makes so much sense to talk about and make other bloggers (especially newbies) aware of its importance.

I'd like to add something to your post though. I read about a presenter a few weeks ago and how discouraged she was when people were a blogging awful things about her and her presentation:

Be kind.
Think before you respond to a blog post, especially when the post contradicts your belief.
Be professional.
Don't attack a blogger personally.
Say what you want to say, but use polite and professional language.

Thanks for pointing us newbies into the direction of commenting...

Kelly · 3 years ago

I love comments... I just started my blog a week ago, and have already received comments from a few people. (TechnoSpud and Cool Cat Teacher, of course) Wow!! How rewarding is that??

I have been doing a lot of reading and adding feeds to my www.Bloglines.com account. Bloglines has been a huge timesaver as a way to organize all of the feeds. I can't wait for the school year to start and read about what everyone is doing via their blogs. Thanks!

Kelly · 3 years ago

Forgot to share this post by a 3rd grade student named Dylan titled: My Blog

Jeanette Wiens-Peckham · 3 years ago

Wow! There was a lot of useful information in there for us "newbies"! You seem to know what I need to hear just when I need to hear it :-).

Okay, I'm not sure if I'm doing the html thing right, but I'll give it a try.

Brain Based Bloggin'

Mr. Poling · 3 years ago

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about how to make your readers better bloggers. I am pretty new to this and I want to get better at making my blog more conversational. I will use your tips with much success I am sure! I am an elementary school principal and I want to help other principals get into blogging. I will point others in your direction.

Jo McLeay · 3 years ago

Vicki, what a great post. I was first attracted by your picture - I just love it - it picks up the immediacy and yes, even intimacy, we get from participating in the conversation you speak of. Such good advice about tracking comments. I tried to install CoComment but something happened and I didn't go through with it. But I will try again now. I just found out about del.icio.us netwrok badges we can put on our blogs and I think this would also add to the value of the connectivitiy

Vicki A. Davis · 3 years ago

Andrew - Thank you for commenting and I too have a need I didn't know I had that is met by blogs!

langwitches - I am going to reedit the post and add commenting to it. It seems that linking has begun and that is an important aspect. Thank you for reminding me to include the most important things -- Words CAN indeed hurt worse than a broken bone. Again, in the power of commenting, an author can reedit a blog post to make it more accurate.

Kelly - This is an exciting time to live and teach! I love it too!

Jeannette = Good job with the hyperlink. I'm still a newbie too and I'm always learning something new and saying to myself, "Now why didn't someone teach me that." Technocrats create obstacles to every day folks using new technologies but techno-advocates like me (and hopefully you) build bridges of understandability between the average person and new technology!

Mr. Polling - Great comment! You will find that as you read the latest in innovation that you will become a more dynamic, exciting, and visionary leader. You are also one of the only elementary principals I know that is blogging so you have a great opportunity to influence other with your willingness to learn and try new things!

Jo
I tried cocomment a while back and had problems. It is a more stable system now, I think. You also are a great commenter that I should have added on my list!

Thank you commenters. I will go edit my post now to include reflections on your thoughts as my intention on this article is to demonstration the dynamics of commenting and how they affect both the commenter and the blogger.

Karen Janowski · 3 years ago

Vicki,
I have been so inspired by what you write that I felt compelled to contact you today and talk in person. There are limits to what blogging allows and sometimes face-to-face or phone conversations fill in those gaps. The reality is that blogging is the way that we are introduced to each other and connected in a way never before possible. It IS an exciting time to be an educator!
(and please check out my blog - I linked to your LD post from January)
Karen

Diane Quirk · 3 years ago

Interestingly, Wes Fryerblogged about statistics from Technorati about the rate at which blogs are being created. So, I'm guessing there are lots of people who want a voice in this world. In terms of educating our students in responsible and ethical uses of that "voice", educators need to find good role models and need to educate themselves about using blogs. I've bookmarked this posting so that, as I learn and help teachers learn about blogging, I can come back to this as a resource. We need the practical tips and the personal insights in addition to the curriculum connections/classroom examples. Thanks so much for this posting!

Beth Ritter-Guth · 3 years ago

Thank you for another insighful post! As a new prof-o-blogger, I find commenting tips helpful. It is sometimes hard to find the time to comment, but I fully intend to put your advice to the test this fall. Do you have any tips for managing volume? I teach 5 sections of 24 students. Thanks!

Anonymous · 3 years ago

Hi
I read you thanks to a French Blog thanks to user ERASER of www.docencia.es (a digg like web but only for news in education world, great page). So you 're right, comments can lead you to great blogs which are commented to.... to the infinite. Pitufo

Karyn Romeis · 3 years ago

Glad to be of service!

Thanks for the pointer to CoComment. I am constantly commenting on posts that I find "via via via" and then forgetting where I have commented. This means that I have been unable to continue to follow the conversation any further. Hopefully you have just put me in touch with a way of fixing that problem.

I totally agree with you on the subject of Kathy Sierra's blog. I started reading her before I even knew what a blog was! She just says it like it is, and you get the feeling she writes the way she talks, which is why she is so readable.

Jeanette Wiens-Peckham · 3 years ago

Your ideas have been perculating in my brain. I have been using them at BrainBasedBloggin

I was on holidays when I noticed that you had referenced my site here. I did not have access to my e-mail and I began hoping for several comments to moderate when I got home. (Actually, I had better admit that I was hoping for LOTS!) When I got home, I was surprised at my disappointment when I discovered there were NO comments to moderate.

It was a lesson for me. I need to leave "footprints" on the sites I walk on.

mcteacher · 3 years ago

I have enjoyed reading many of Cool Cat Teacher's posts over the past several months. In fact, it was her (and several others) who inspired me to start my own blog.

I have had a few people drop by and leave comments on my site. It truly is amazing when people start commenting on your blog. I enjoy reflecting on and writing the entries and it is nice to know that I am not the only one reading them (which would be ok since I mainly do this for myself). But, oh the feeling you get knowing that other's are with you.

MrsC · 3 years ago

Vicki I am using this post to teach my seniors the fine art of blog commenting. Thanks for the perfect explanation.

Carol Thomas · 3 years ago

Vicki, I read this post when I first started blogging. At the time I didn't know how to keep track of interesting blog articles but I remembered this article and I so wanted to find and read it again! So, today as I was going through material (I'm a doctoral student looking at "web 2.0" adoption among graduate students... particularly those in graduate programs) I kept looking around until I found it again! Thank you for the good work you do. I am learning a lot by and from your work. Thank you!

Sunil Bajpai · 3 years ago

Hi Vicki:

Great post and thanks for writing about cocomment, which I just finished installing.

A lot of what you say, with some modifications, applies to conversations outside the blogosphere as well!

Thanks and best wishes,
Sunil

teacher juli · 3 years ago

Hi! I'm a newbie blogger and have gained some valuable insight into the "rules" of commenting from this post. Commenting seemed a little daunting because I wasn't sure of the etiquette. Thanks for the confidence-booster to post my first comment!

best,
Juli

Ms. Sheldon · 2 years ago

Hi, It's been a while since you posted this, but I am new to blogging and stumbled upon it in doing some research.

First, thank you for the information. It gives me some perspective about the "blogosphere" which is pretty new to me.

Second, I appreciate your attitude which welcomes us all into the dialogue. You made me think about the responsibilities we bloggers (is that really me?) have to participate by "listening" and contributing.

Ms. Sheldon
And now, my first-ever attempt at HTML
Second Bell

Vicki A. Davis · 2 years ago

Wow, what a great practice of commenting as shown here on this post! This is one of my most commented posts (imagine that!) Each of you have given great insight and encouragement to a person who still feels like a beginning blogger (me). This also shows how it is important to look back at the older information of bloggers to find some gems. I think every blogger should include an "MVP" list of sorts on their blog! As David Warlick says, "Information doesn't travel in straight lines."

Kudos to each of you for commenting here!

Brandon · 2 years ago

Great post. I'm following it up with more commenting ideas at my website Brandon-Hopkins.com

Белая Церковь · 2 years ago

Thank you for another insighful post! As a new prof-o-blogger, I find commenting tips helpful. It is sometimes hard to find the time to comment, but I fully intend to put your advice to the test this fall. Do you have any tips for managing volume? I teach 5 sections of 24 students. Thanks!

Белая Церковь · 2 years ago

There was a lot of useful information in there for us "newbies"! You seem to know what I need to hear just when I need to hear it :-).

Okay, I'm not sure if I'm doing the html thing right, but I'll give it a try.

Cat · 2 years ago

Great article - very inspiring. Interesting how much of your traffic is from comments, I would never had thought it a worthwhile thing to do.

Thanks

Sanford Rosser · 2 years ago

What has surprised me is the amount of civility usually shown by most commenters on the internet. Communities often police themselves and shun those who are rude or offensive without any global requirement to do so. I guess there is hope for humanity after all.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

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Anthony · 2 years ago

Thanks for your excellent suggestions. I recently saw them in the April issue of Technology & Learning. My class left comments on several blogs that reviewed a book we were reading. Imagine our thrill when one of the author's posted a comment on our class blog. Let the conversations continue...

morinn · 2 years ago

Helpful indeed ;)

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Thanks, i do get sick of meaningless comments on my blog i must say.

I say one plugin that made a tickbox that the poster had to tick... it said something like "I confirm that my post is not spam"

They say it reduced the amount of spam posts ! - guess maybe some spammers may have a conscience!

Cheers for your blog post!

spanish

crash course · 2 years ago

Thank you, I was never quite sure about commenting protocol but the closer I get to creating a blog of my own the more I hope people will comment on it.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Thanks! This site is an awesome guide to blogs and commenting.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Thank you so much for the information. This site is a great tutor for blogging and commenting!

kookaburra · 2 years ago

THis is a wonderful tutorial - it will be very useful when I introduce blogging to my students, be they adult students or still in the public schools. It's also given me several tips to help improve my own blogs.
Thanks for your time in writing this up.

servizi cartomanzia · 2 years ago

great post, i agree with your comments

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Thank you for sharing your wealth of information on this blog. I feel like I've had the etiquette rules nicely laid out and am ready to give blogging a go.

Gyry · 2 years ago

By all hi!!!
I from Russia. I am sorry for my bad English!!!
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At me on a site PR-2 why so happens...
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Whether it influences search???

Paapere · 2 years ago

Hi Vicki
I met you on a skype screen while sitting in a New Zealand conference featuring keynote speaker Miguel Guhlin earlier this year. Thanks for the cocommenter which I have noted for future reference. I teach high school and want to get an intranet blog going for my classes. I agree with the importance of the learner and therefore that we must value and respect our teachers so that the best learning is delivered to our children. I love your blogging style and hope to visit your blog more often in the future.

Bubbles Reedy

Tom Bombadil · 1 year ago

Great Read

Anonymous · 1 year ago

I really appreciate this post as a newbie. For a recent grad computer technology course I was required to post one comment to a blog that interested me. I honestly was very nervous about it and was very fearful of saying the wrong thing. I didn't want to sound ridiculous! This insightful post has given me the courage to go for it. It has also given me a better understanding of how commenting is properly done. Thank you so much!

Vicki A. Davis · 1 year ago

@anonymous -- Yes, sometimes when you comment, you just need to jump in and get your feet wet. Thank you for reminding me on this Sunday morning about the importance of encouraging beginners - sometimes we don't all know where to start!

Julie · 1 year ago

Thank you so much, this was extremely informative and will be quite useful to me.

harathi · 1 year ago

testing purpose

Lady G · 1 year ago

Thanks for this extremely helpful and well written post. Your passion for teaching and helping others is clear. :)

Nate · 1 year ago

I think it's important to teach kids and adults to review what we've been taught with a more inquisitive mind. There are many incidents in American history that are not anything like school teaches us.

juleste · 1 year ago

Hi! This is a very useful and informative advice. Thanks for sharing them.

accounting · 1 year ago

thank You

otter · 1 year ago

Just when I wondered if blogs are truly interactive, if people really converse on blogs, I read your article. Very encouraging! It also lists helpful tips and links for teachers who want to start their students blogging - I'd like to include the link for your blog in the resources section of a book I'm writing on blogging.

Tracie
www.otter2.wordpr...

Kate · 1 year ago

This article was really useful. it's pretty straight forward and it did solve my problem.

Madhav Tripathi · 1 year ago

Thanks for so many great tips. I am new to blogging world but I am sure your tips can improve anyone`s blogging experience. I have many blogs but no one is in good condition. But now I am hopeful for my blogging future.

Chimbles · 1 year ago

Great advice! Thanks for gathering all that commenting info and sharing it with us!

-Chimbles

Zoe's · 1 year ago

Hi~I am the student from Taiwan.
I'm really inspired by your great advice about commenting.
I learn how to give people more meaningful comments on his/her blog after reading your suggestion.
Thank you a lot!!^^

Steffen · 1 year ago

Your comments on blogging give a good insight. I can see that you are more experienced at it than I am :-). I have the special case of trying to get a very specific audience to blog at my site (workers at German metal working companies) which makes it a bit more difficult to get anything relevent going. I will still keep your useful comments in mind.

mary anna · 1 year ago

Thank you so much for this post. I have never commented on blogs before this week :) and I only started to because I am required to by a class. At 46 (long-time teacher and administrator) I feel like I'm pretty good with technology but I am definitely not up-to-date with the newest developments. I have felt quite squeamish about adding a comment (what could I possibly have to contribute?) and this post addressed all my fears and made me feel much better, and much braver, about the whole thing.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

I like the design of your blog.
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Helen · 1 year ago

As a newbie to blogging, I found your blog to be very helpful and informative. It will definitely be a must read for my students before they begin blogging in the fall.

limo hire · 1 year ago

It's good to see people are passionate people.

Nice article. Well done!

sushi recipe · 1 year ago

It IS an exciting time to be an educator! Say what you want to say, but use polite and professional language.
Thanks for pointing us newbies into the direction of commenting...

Mrs. Holder · 1 year ago

Thanks Cool Cat, for providing such kind guidelines. I enjoy commenting in conversations with other professionals and have found different groups (listservs) fun and informative. A wonderful place to vent, contribute creative ideas for teaching a topic, and "stealing" ideas of others. I now will be using a blog to do the same thing. I am a newbie but check out what I have done in just a few days....Mrs. Holder

grot · 1 year ago

Thank you very much. This was a great help.

4SENUF · 1 year ago

This was a very helpful blog to read. It gave me great insight about the proper etiquette for blogging. Although I always remember what my mother taught me that "if you don't have anything nice to say than keep your mouth shut". Now I am off to discover CoComment. Take care and thanks!

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Thank you for this blog and several others which I have read over the last few days. Your philosophy of blogging and teaching are thought provoking. Since this is my first ever comment to a blog, it seems like an appropriate place to express my appreciation.

I am a new teacher and a new blogger. With 35 years in engineering and engineering management, I am pretty much embody the not-too-socially-adept stereotype. You are giving me something to chew on. Thanks.

Its only my lack of understanding of the process that prevents my from (I think) identifying myself.

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Accounting Learner · 1 year ago

One more thing I would like to add in this is your comment should be relevant to the post.

Yendis · 1 year ago

I agree with everything you mentioned, a comment, should always come from your heart, a comment should always be meaningful, we should always make the other and the author feel special, and that what he wrote has a truly meaning, called our attention and that is why we are leaving a comment.

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busby SEO Challenge · 1 year ago

how to get a high Pagerank? (Let's clarify: saying ‘high Pagerank', we mean at least PR6)

Of course there are many different ways. You may start exchanging links with PR1-2 websites,

then with PR2-3, then with PR3-4 etc… and after a year of this madness you'll probably get a

result. But till that time, your mailbox will burst from tons of “link exchange proposals”

and your website will look more like a free-for-all directory. Or you may start writing

articles adding your website URL in the bottom, but not everyone can do this, and it'll also

require many months of efforts.Busby SEO Challenge..

coolcatteacher · 1 year ago

I don't really look at "pagerank" -- I don't know that I've ever checked
it. I've looked at Technorati authority and if someone types in "teacher
blog" on Google blog search how I come up. But the reason I look at
"authority" on technorati is to follow the backlinks there as the Google
blogger backlinks feature is pretty pitiful at best.

I don't do link exchanges for precisely the reasons that you stated. I have
got to update my blogroll out of my google reader now, but no, I don't do
link exchanges -- that is just linking for the sake of linking and for me, I
want purpose to what I do.

Great thoughts.

Gazduire Web · 1 year ago

Thank you so much for this post.

julia · 1 year ago

very good job!!!

fashion jewelry · 1 year ago

web site need to increase pr so many people only say yeah, and no reason , and I was one of these peoples

coolcatteacher · 1 year ago

decline

sohbet · 1 year ago

I don't do link exchanges for precisely the reasons that you stated. I have
got to update my blogroll out of my google reader now, but no, I don't do
link exchanges -- that is just linking for the sake of linking and for me, I
want purpose to what I do.

coolcatteacher · 1 year ago

Yes, I just do my links out of Google reader also. Many do it to boost
their ratings, but I think just good honest sharing lets people rise to the
top who deserve it.

jeryy · 1 year ago

I don't do link exchanges for precisely the reasons that you stated. I have
got to update my blogroll out of my google reader now, but no, I don't do
link exchanges -- that is just linking for the sake of linking and for me, I
want purpose to what I do.
__________
sohbet

hack · 1 year ago

thanks

sam · 1 year ago

I agree , a comment, should always come from your mind, a comment should always be helpful,

coolcatteacher · 1 year ago

Yes, it should!! And not just self promoting. Some comment for the link, I
think. Thank you for adding your thoughts.

meka · 1 year ago

You give some pretty insightful tips on blog commenting. Usually the topic is approached from a how-can-I-benefit-from-commenting approach. While there’s nothing wrong with that mentality, I appreciate your perspective. It’s important to give feedback and develop conversation in blog comments. I taught kindergarten and first graders for several years. I always gave lessons to the kids on giving feedback to their peers, or to me. They’re used to saying, “I liked it…because it’s nice.” It looks like kids aren’t the only ones who need a little practice in this arena.

coolcatteacher · 1 year ago

Of course, commenting is nice. It is a good thing to do for that reason.
However, many need reasons to do it well. I get so many comments that are
transparently "I'm writing this comment so you give me a hyperlink" - it is
tacky and shows their true motivation, often it is spam.

Being kind to others is a very important thing and perhaps it should be
talked about more here. As a kindergarten teacher, you may be more in tune
with that than others since it is something you deal with on a daily basis!
Thank you for stopping by and commenting.

Richard Greenwood · 1 year ago

This is an excellent article. I've recently started a blog using Wordpress and have been surprised how many 'automated' type SPAM comments come through to every post I make. I'm really keen to have people commenting on my finance articles I write but not just adding the same comment they've put on 10,000 other sites! As you have said, the comment field is there to add value and create conversation.

coolcatteacher · 1 year ago

Richard-- Try Disqus - it is a GREAT service for filtering spam and is
compatible with wordpress.

Shaikh Izaj Ahmed · 1 year ago

Yes this really explains the commentor how to comment in a right way, I had seen many people write very short comments and fill up the blog with spams and short silly comments. Comments should be meaningful as you mentioned. Thanks for the content - Siaar.

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Tuure Koivikko · 1 year ago

THIS is great blog!!!

marta · 1 year ago

Hi! I'm an ESL teacher in Spain. We're very interested in using your site for a Reading project we're in. I have some questions:

1. We're now reading comics and you reading ring is perfect for us because we want students to be aware of sequencing strategies. However, since every time the comic strips change, we cannot prepare the lessons previously ( vocabulary, more questions,etc). Any ideas?
I've also had a look at the Garfield Aloud section, which is great. Is there a possibility to make it online and interactivr instead of PDF?
Also we're very much interested in making our own "reading ring" so we can't use the comic strips that better adjust to our students level ( which is very basic), could you recommend us an editor/ generator to make something similar to your reading ring?Thank you very much for your site and time.

Tom Peters · 1 year ago

These tips are the bomb! Thanks for them. I have given them to my employees.

smith2k9 · 1 year ago

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about how to make your readers better bloggers. I am pretty new to this and I want to get better at making my blog more conversational. I will use your tips with much success I am sure! I am an elementary school principal and I want to help other principals get into blogging. I will point others in your direction.

smith

istgah · 1 year ago

very nice and interesting good luck

titson · 1 year ago

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Be like a candle
which burns itself
but
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sgballers · 1 year ago

thanks fo helping me

bebo2001 · 1 year ago

i like reading articles and leaving comments of how i feel, good job

ro · 11 months ago

This is reaally cool, get paid for commenting on websites... its like money for free. al you have to do is join for free, view the websites, and make money... get paid by paypal

coolcatteacher · 11 months ago

Get paid for commenting? That is not what the article says.

Jayme · 11 months ago

Intersting ideas. thanks for the insight

imhaya · 11 months ago

i thank you for this useful and complete post, i was looking for post like this. I like your blog, even its only hosting on blogspot but you still get many subscriber.

By the way, how about responding on people comments, is it really important? I mean, for posts like this, with many comments come, is it necessary to reply to them? Maybe responding your visitor's comments will increase more people to commenting?

Vicki A. Davis · 11 months ago

@imhaya - If you'll notice there are a lot of responses from me here - been out of the country a bit and typically I focus on engaging in conversation on more recent posts just due to time constraints. But yes, to answer your question, commenting and responding IS very important - this is one reason I'm transitioning to disqus for comments as it is easier to post a reply - I can reply by just responding to the comment.

cerca gratis · 10 months ago

Hi, I agree with this blog

Shannon · 10 months ago

As an educator trying to get up to speed in the world of technology we really appreciate your tips.

coolcatteacher · 10 months ago

You are so welcome! Good luck!

Vicki Davis
Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Building the bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk
across.

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Ese · 10 months ago

Great post, I just Googled, "why my blog readers don't comment" and your blog just popped out, I've been bloggin for about 1 year, by now I have 4000 hits, but very few comments, my site meter tells me people do actually stay and read my post, not just some hit and run readers, but they never comment, and that's something I've been working on.

I belong to some blog aggregators and blogosphere, I guess that's where my readers come from, but as I said, they barely comment on my post, I assume they find it interesting but not enough to comment.

One thing I do lack is that I don't comment myself too much around the blogs I read, I guess you couldn't ask for yourself what you are not giving for others.

Your post has given me very nice tips that I'm planning to prove. Thanks!

Silvis · 9 months ago

You seem very into blogging and thats cool, but you make it seem like a life line and do not agree with that. Technology has come and is not going anywhere, but kids need to learn about real life interation before they jump into the virtual world.

Terri · 9 months ago

I think this is the first post I've ever read about commenting. You raise many excellent points to consider. This advice seems to be directed towards adults. Do you have a list of "Best Practices for Commenting" that is geared towards elementary students?

David Hopkins · 9 months ago

Many thanks for this post, it is most useful and has made me realise what else I need to do apart from writing meaningful content in the first place.

Another aspect that must be followed... always make sure you spell things properly!!

angeela · 9 months ago

Nice tips regarding comments on blogs!!
I hv first time seen too much deep description at a single place with real meaningful & useful description!!!
Thanx for sharing
From Angela
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Voucher King · 9 months ago

Loving the Darth Vader enallage. Another thing i find really annoying when people come to comment, is if they can't think of anything constuctive to say, they will start picking at your spelling and grammer! Now i know that my spelling and grammer is awfull at the best of times. BUt there is nothing more irritating then someone who will just leave a comment criticizing the bloggers spelling!

You know who you are! :o)

coolcatteacher · 9 months ago

That is so true!!!

Vicki Davis
Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Building the bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk
across.

Sent from my iPod touch

gio · 9 months ago

Great blog! It's always so nice to be inspired

Елизавета · 7 months ago

Thanks for good pieces of advice.

Jami F · 6 months ago

"Teach commenting" this is so true. Students today do not citically thing about what they have written down. If students are taught to comment about their work and others they will defintely improve not only on written skills, but other forms of communication as well.

coolcatteacher · 6 months ago

Commenting can be a challenge. Just getting students to process and
add to the conversation.

Vicki Davis
Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Building the bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk
across.

Sent from my iPod touch

Lori Jackson · 6 months ago

I am so glad I read your blog. I am new to this and your insights and advice were very helpful.

tjackson17 · 6 months ago

I am so glad I read your blog. I am new to this and your insights and advice were very helpful.

Mary Ann Shupe · 6 months ago

This is a new chapter in the life of an immigrant to technology. Your thoughts and comments on DC were right on the button. You can appreciate the excitement of Dylan who has discovered the joys of communication. If we can come up with a method of giving our emerging students some form of protection against the DCs of this world, we'll all end up making progress in the proper direction. Thanks for your guidance to those of us new to these evolving challenges.

Twlightmom · 6 months ago

I'm just emerging into the world of blogging and I love it. I'm still learning and can't wait to use this in the classroom next year. Thanks for all the ideas on commenting. It's helped me to be more insightful.

blazinblog · 6 months ago

I got great ideas about how to post of the web. This is my first week as a blogger. I feel like with your advise I will encourage other bloggers.

Funny Story · 6 months ago

Thank you for another insighful post! As a new prof-o-blogger, I find commenting tips helpful.

Karen Hatzigeorgiou · 5 months ago

Hi Vicki,
Do you mind if I adapt this post for use with my students?
The suggestions would be so useful for them!

Karen

coolcatteacher · 5 months ago

Just let me know how you wish to adapt it? Are you going to repurpose online or just use offline. I am creative commons share alike non commercial attribution 3.0 license - so feel free to take a look at the terms at www.creativecommons.org. Good luck.

Jucarii · 5 months ago

good job!

Lisa · 5 months ago

Great Tips here! I will use this in my classes! Thanks.

linsleyi · 5 months ago

Good guidelines for newbies. Thank you.

Lori Jackson · 5 months ago

I was inspired by your blog post. I am new to blogging and am still feeling my way. I created my own blog this summer for a class assignment and it was a lot of fun. With each new web 2.0 tool that I used, I became more interested in IT. My professor for the course, Dr. Anne Wall, was a wonderful guide into the world of technology. I learned many new things about computer programs and applications that I didn't know. I have been using Word for several years and there are many features of this program alone that I did not know existed. I think I am going to enjoy blogging and I hope that I might inspired someone else in the future.

coolcatteacher · 5 months ago

Thank you for replying! It is so much about paying it back. I have been so encouraged by others that I want to turn around and encourage others as well. I'm so glad that you are inspired to share and you are lucky to have a great professor like Dr. Wall (i've heard her name.) Good luck on your journey and please share!

omiford · 5 months ago

Thanks for putting out such a through and candid post on commenting. I am working on a edublog for the first time this summer and I have found commenting on others blogs much more difficult than when I comment on my friend's baby blog. Edublogs are more personal and I appreciate how you gave fair warning about Dath Commenters but also provided prompting questions. I'm off to comment!

RochelleJerla · 5 months ago

I am a Librarian in Texas and am currently learning to blog. This page/article was extremely helpful. I appreciate the details and very specific ideas for commenting. This page has really helped me. Thank you!

coolcatteacher · 5 months ago

Thank you so much!! Hope it is going well for you!! Are you, by chAnce
on a 23 things course?

Vicki Davis
Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Building the bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk
across.

Sent from my iPod touch

Hector · 4 months ago

I'm typing just because you said so, good motivator and also because I really want if nice people like you become a member of my blog.
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cufflinks · 4 months ago

I just came across this article and found it very interesting indeed.

This is the first time i have come across someone who has provided helpful advice regarding blog comments

Miss S · 4 months ago

That was a really helpful summary for those of us who are new to the blog/commenting business! Thanks!

Cassbwhite · 4 months ago

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and perspectives on commenting. It is appreciated.

Ria.Tweet · 3 months ago

Hey really interesting post.. Very nice piece of information. This post will be useful for newbies like me. Thanks for the post.

Plantar Fasciitis Exercises · 2 months ago

Its ironic that in a post about blog commenting there should be so many html errors made by people commenting in the comment section. That's life I suppose!! Great blog. I enjoy reading it and am going to add it to my RSS now.

Hampers · 1 month ago

Although quite some time, I just can't help but say my views about commenting. To be frank, there is that intention to be known, but I strongly believe in sharing my thoughts through my comments which I know is relevant to the topic being discuss. But sometimes there are those who just generalize the meaning of spamming. Any unsolicited and no relevance at all is spamming in its truest sense of the word. But if we talk about relevance, the owner should also take into consideration the sincerity of the intention to be part of the conversation.

coolcatteacher · 1 month ago

Yes. If someone wants to be part of the conversation, that is great.
Intentions ate tough to judge, though and sometimes approval of one
relevant comment means that the next spam comment gets through!

Vicki Davis
Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Building the bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk
across.

Sent from my iPod touch

terencelewis · 1 month ago

Thanks for nice suggestion, these steps would be really helpful for bloggers

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