Posted in comment08, education reform on May 12th, 2008 4 Comments »
Thanks to a tweet from Jeff Whipple I found my way to this video produced by Pearson’s for CoSN.
The title – Learning to Change, grabbed me first and got me thinking before I even clicked the play button. We tell teachers they must change, but do we acknowledge that we must in many cases learn [...]
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 [...]
