So when do the comments become effective feedback???
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Suggestions for building an audience:
– Share the blog details with parents via the school websites and newsletters.
– Display links to the blog around the local community, for example the local library.
– Team up with other schools or organisations via connection sites such as Quadblogging and Lend Me Your Literacy
– Approach individuals to respond to a particular blog post, starting a Guest Markers project.
– Share links to the blog using social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
– Add your blog to the Literacy Shed class blogs page ( this is also a good place to look at, and comment on, students blogs from around the world)
Comments and Feedback
Everyone involved with a students blog needs to recognise the importance of the commenting process. Clear guidelines should be provided outlining criteria for commenting. This may seem a little prescriptive but it reduces the prevalence of less meaningful comments. One simple idea is to encourage commenters to say what they like best of all and provide one suggestion for improvement: this makes the process constructive and so much more powerful than simply saying “great work!”
In addition, it is good practice to encourage students to thank people for their comments.
Moderation
Teachers need to be able to moderate blog content especially if students are able to post to their blog from home. Post and comment moderation settings can easily be set up on all blogging platforms through the administration features of a blog so that post and comments can be moderated before being published.
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