Posted in about blogging, comment08 on May 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
As part of the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge, we’ve been asked to consider how we’re inviting conversation on our own blogs. It’s been suggested that we use Michele Martin’s post Six Reasons People Aren’t Commenting On Your Blog as a guide for auditing our blogs. Here are six common traps Michele says bloggers [...]
Posted in about blogging, comment08, memes on May 10th, 2008 7 Comments »
We’re more than a week into the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge and at the time of this writing, coComment is tracking 135 conversations by 92 group members. There are far too many individual comments to try to read them all! However following conversations that interest you will still lead you to many voices you [...]
Posted in about blogging, comment08, memes on May 5th, 2008 11 Comments »
The volume of the edublogsphere has been cranked up this past week as over 100 bloggers have taken up the challenge to improve their commenting by participating in the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge. Commenters have been buzzing, flitting from blog to blog, sampling bits of wisdom here and digging into conversations there.
Kate Foy and [...]
Posted in about blogging, comment08, memes, social networks on May 3rd, 2008 9 Comments »
I’m really enjoying taking part in the 2008 Comment Challenge! I’m meeting familiar and new-to-me bloggers all over the place (including here on my own blog)! And as usual when I throw myself into a challenge, I’m learning so much!
Today’s challenge relates to comment tracking. This is a critical element of commenting. When you make [...]
Posted in about blogging, comment08, memes on May 1st, 2008 16 Comments »
Coordinated by Sue Waters, Silvia Tolisano, Michele Martin and Kim Cofino, the Comment Challenge has been designed to motivate us to become “better blog citizens.”
I think this is just the kick-in-the-pants I need to get back to being a participating citizen of the edublogsphere, one who enjoys the right to take part in collegial dialogue [...]
Posted in UStream TV, about blogging, backchannelling, conferences, online tools, social networks on Oct 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
The neat thing about edubloggers is that they don’t just write about “stuff” after it happens; they get out there, jump in with both feet and try things. We’re all geared up for the K12 Online Conference and its theme of Playing with Boundaries seems to have hit home with many of us, as that’s [...]
Posted in about blogging, social networks on Aug 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I joined the social network EduBloggerWorld shortly after attending the Edubloggercon in Atlanta this past June. Created by edubloggers Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis, Darren Draper and Steve Hargadon, EduBloggerWorld has as its stated mission, “Facilitating connections and community for educational bloggers worldwide.”
There seems to be a real emphasis in this social network on developing community, [...]
Posted in about blogging, just for fun on Aug 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Thanks to Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach for her post leading me to the cartoons of Dave Walker.
I’ve been travelling for the last week and just skimming my RSS feeds. Now that I’m back home “I’m digging in” to some of the “meatier” posts I’d set aside. I’m feeling kind of like this cartoon at the moment.
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Posted in about blogging, the new literacy on Jul 17th, 2007 No Comments »
If you had to guess, how “old” would you say the practice of blogging is?
For sure, I’d guess at least five years. Well I’m off a fair bit – double that. According to this article in the Wall Street journal:
We are approaching a decade since the first blogger — regarded by many to be Jorn [...]
