This was a post that was of special interest to me because I feel like this is the area where I am slacking in my blog. I have been following many blogs and have found many great ideas and strategies of ways to use blogging in education. I have commented on a few of the posts that have interested me and have received feedback on my own posts. My next goal is to increase the number of comments I make and also respond to the comments that people post on my blog.
Also on the edublogger site, the post is titled Commenting, Learning Together and the Comment Challenge.
The general idea is that they are having a Comment Challenge to encourage everyone to blog and comment more often. There are going to be tasks each day that the participants need to complete and prizes award at the end. Teachers can involve their students and have them compete in the challenge.
The purpose of the challenge is to show the importance of commenting in increasing the size of a blogging community and to show how much you can learn from others. It's amazing how much you can learn through collaboration and when so many different people bring their knowledge and experience to the table. Blogging can open a whole new world of opportunities because by reading other people's opinions, it may just change a personal opinion or spark an interest in a new area.
To me, blogging and just collaboration through technology in general is mind blowing. There is such a great opportunity to learn from people that you will never have the chance to meet and there are so many experiences that you can learn about through these people. Just in the few months that I have been participating in blogging and doing a bit more research on using technology in education, I have discovered so many great ideas that I would never have thought of on my own. And you better believe that I'm going to sign up for the challenge :)
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Glad Myou've decided to join us Marissa. Michele Martin is excellent and taking us through tasks so that we all gain. Look forward to working with you closely.
Hi Marissa So that all the posts generated from the Challenge come to one location we need your post to be found by technorati. Can you get you to go to Technorati and claim your blog? You need to sign up to Technorati to do this. Once you have done this when you write posts can you tag highlighted on the challenge wiki?
Glad to have you participating Marissa!
It is amazing how much you can learn just by reading, collaborating and connecting with like-minded educators! I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again, but I've learned more in my last 2 years of blogging than I have in 8 years of teaching combined!
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